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Notre Dame Football All-Decade Team – Running Backs

I know I wasn’t the only one invigorated by the short-lived Adams Heisman run as I’ve seen other people wearing the campaign-sanctioned trucker hats at games,

One position down on our All-Decade Team, now it’s on to the Fighting Irish backs that carried the rock at a high level during the last decade.

The three players selected had the first, fifth and eighth most carries among running backs from 2010-2019, but we didn’t simply weigh longevity. We weighed impact on the program during the time they played.

There are really good backs we left off this list but the three backs we did include were the only three running backs to have seasons of at least 900 rushing yards while averaging six yards per carry. That wasn’t the determining factor, it just so happened to work out that way.

First up – The Backups:

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ND Football All-Decade Team – Quarterback

He’s 22 starts in, with 13 or 14 more to go hopefully, but Book was the only Notre Dame quarterback during this time period whose big numbers matched the team’s lofty success.

With Notre Dame’s season concluded and the entire college football season just waiting for the coronation next Monday night, what better time than now to reflect on the last decade of Notre Dame football. There is a little over three months until the April 18th spring game so let’s fill that time with some Brian Kelly-era reflection.

Over the next few months, we’re going to run through the best games, players and moments from the last ten years of Notre Dame football.

With the first installment, we start with the most important position in football. Here are the four quarterbacks on our 53-man All-Decade Team.

BACKUPS

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