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Mitchell Evans a Top-Five Tight End in New College Football Video Game

What kind of year are you expecting from Mitchell Evans?

What kind of season will Notre Dame tight end Mitchell Evans have in 2024?

The answer to that question will probably tell you a lot about how strong Notre Dame’s offense is as the star appears to be the most talented target new Irish quarterback Riley Leonard will have at his disposal.

Evans is however coming off an ACL injury that he suffered roughly two-thirds through last season.  It’s an injury that kept him out of spring practice but he’s expected to be ready to go for fall camp.

Just how strong will Evans be once camp gets here?

The new EA Sports College Football video game thinks pretty strong as they have given him a 90-rating.  That’s good to be one of the five-best tight ends in the game.

With so many question marks at wide receiver, getting big-time production from a tight end would be really helpful to Mike Denbrock in his first year back calling plays for Notre Dame.

Notre Dame to search transfer portal for quarterback again in 2024

What kind of quarterback will Notre Dame be looking for?

Notre Dame is set to have three scholarship quarterbacks on their roster to start the 2024 season.

Steve Angeli would be the perceived starter while Kenny Minchey would likely be QB-2 and incoming freshman CJ Carr would be the third.  Having just three scholarship quarterbacks on the roster isn’t something Marcus Freeman is too high on, however.

“As I told Steve (Angeli) and Kenny (Minchey), who’s done a really good job in practice, is that we owe it to this program to try to put four quarterbacks on scholarship. That’s the number we have allotted for. We have three right now, but we’ve had since I became a head coach and before, the number being four. If somebody transfers and then all sudden, you’re down to three, but we want to try to always have four guys on scholarship but that has nothing to do in my beliefs and [autotag]Steve Angeli[/autotag] and [autotag]Kenny Minchey[/autotag]. Both of those guys are extremely talented, and I can see being the leader of our program as we move forward.”

Marcus Freeman on Nov. 13, 2023

It’s not at all surprising that Freeman and Notre Dame plan to go to the portal for another scholarship quarterback next season.  It’s not the that though, it’s more the type that I’m interested in knowing about.

Certainly it depends on who ends up becoming available but from the onset the biggest question is this – are they looking to simply add depth or are they hoping to add someone who will genuinely compete for, if not enter 2024 as the favorite for the starting job?

It seems like Notre Dame is caught between a rock and a hard place a bit at quarterback.  They want to develop their own product to have for more than just a year or two but they also don’t want to start a quarterback without starting experience.

We’ll have plenty more of this here at Fighting Irish Wire up until the next newest Fighting Irish quarterback is here so stay tuned.