Notre Dame Football: What Grant Blankenship’s Suspension Means

Junior defensive end Grant Blankenship has been suspended from the Notre Dame Football team.

In the last bit of news coming from Notre Dame before the annual Blue-Gold spring football game, we have learned that junior defensive end Grant Blankenship from Texas, has been suspended from the football team due to a team rules violation.

While very little is coming from Notre Dame in terms of details, a few short searches on Twitter and the message boards tell basically the same tale.

The speculation is that Grant Blankenship just quit. He quit whatever it was that he was doing and walked off of the practice field.

This has all the makings of the Aaron Lynch Saga 2.0, but without all the juicy details and definitely without all of the gametime stats to make you really shudder.

Notre Dame was already fairly deep with bodies at defensive end, and it appears that Blankenship was slipping further and further down the totem pole. The unofficial word out of South Bend is that Blankenship will be transferring after this semester.

What does this mean for Notre Dame? Well, it would be one less head case on the team, and almost all the time that is the best thing for every one. This also means that the rest of the depth chart would get more reps each week, and for the younger pups, it would allow a clearer path to more possible playing time.

One other thing is that it frees up another scholarship for the next cycle. While I generally hate this kind of thinking and would almost always like more veterans on the team, dead weight is dead weight no matter the class.

If Grant Blankenship was spiraling down the depth chart and also proving to be a cancer on the team, then a departure would be ideal.