Let’s have some enjoyable with Notre Dame’s all-time defensive stat leaders

I used to be sitting all the way down to put collectively slightly one thing about Notre Dame cornerback Leonard Moore, and began double checking some Fighting Irish defensive stats. While I’m fairly conversant in them, I stared on the listings for a couple of minutes and thought… there’s some humorous stuff occurring right here.

So, listed here are a few of these ideas that I had:

Xavier Watts may without end be beneath appreciated by school soccer followers. He completed tied for third all-time for profession interceptions at Notre Dame which was greater than Irish legends, Shane Walton and Todd Lyght. Sometimes “legend” standing takes slightly little bit of marinating — but it surely shouldn’t since Watts was so unbelievable.

Watts is tied for seventh for interceptions in a season (7), and one of many guys he’s tied with is Manti Te’o. I don’t assume (and neither do you) we’ll ever see a linebacker pull down that many picks once more. Much was stated about Te’o’s Heisman marketing campaign, but it surely was THOSE interceptions that actually set him up.

If I requested you to call the highest ten main tacklers in Notre Dame historical past — how lengthy wouldn’t it take you to give you the title of Te’von Coney? The former Irish linebacker is at present tenth all-time with 314 from 2015-2018.

We will NEVER see something just like the Bob’s once more. Bob Crable and Bob Golic sit atop the all-time sort out leaders at 1 and a couple of respectively. From 1975 to 1981 the pair mixed for 1000 tackles on the dot (521 Crable & 479 Golic).

While the Bob’s are effectively represented within the prime 10 for single recreation tackles, Chinedum Ndukwe had a 22 sort out recreation towards Air Force in 2006 which is third finest all-time (the Bob’s are tied for first with 26 towards Michigan and Clemson).

Isaiah Foskey holds the profession sack spot with 26.5, however Justin Tuck (24.5) and Stephon Tuitt (22.5) did their harm with one much less season.

Speaking of ONE season… in 1996, Bert Berry had 10 sacks (sixth), Renaldo Wynn had 9 sacks (eighth), and Kory Minor had 8 sacks (ninth). Like critically — three guys on one protection that sacked the QB sufficient occasions to be ranked within the prime ten at Notre Dame.

There are two groups that Notre Dame has simply killed through the sack, Pitt and Stanford. These are all within the prime 5 for sacks in a single recreation:

And that’s all I’ve. You can holler about it within the feedback.