Notre Dame Football landed a monster transfer in Cain Madden

The Notre Dame Football team is revamping the offensive line heading into the 2021 season, and Cain Madden is going to be a big part of the solution.

On Friday afternoon, the Notre Dame Football program landed Marshall All-American guard Cain Madden. He announced his intentions to transfer in May and Notre Dame, along with several others jumped at the opportunity to get him on board for the upcoming season.

Madden was ultimately down to Florida State, where he visited earlier this week and the Irish where he currently is on campus in South Bend for his official. Obviously, the pedigree that comes with being an offensive lineman was huge here for Madden and his family.

I also think the stars aligned with Notre Dame losing a ton of experience this past season to the NFL Draft and ultimately helped the Irish here land the All-American because of the real opportunity to start for the Irish.

So what is the Notre Dame Football program getting in Cain Madden?

The 6’3 313 pound Guard isn’t called the dump truck for no reason. He’s an absolute beast in the run game and stones all his competition at the snap. He prides himself on dominating the trenches and it’s shown on game day.

At the end of the day, the Notre Dame projected starting offensive linemen, before landing Madden, had a combined 31 starts. Cain Madden alone has 31 starts under his belt (44 games played). Experience is exactly what he’ll be bringing and it’s absolutely needed for this young -yet talented- offensive line group.

It’s seemed as though the Notre Dame faithful, along with myself included, was prepared and ready to watch the true freshman tandem of highly touted lineman Blake Fisher and Rocco Spindler go through the season alongside each other, for both the ups or downs. However, with this addition of Madden, that might have to wait.

I’d expect to see Rocco Spindler over the long season one way or another but at the end of the day he will absolutely need to get stronger and having a veteran like Madden come in and let Spindler have time to grow, as well as learn behind the veteran, it’ll be a blessing in disguise for the young stud guard. Cain will tremendously help with the inside run game and with the talent, Notre Dame has with its running backs, you have to love the addition to the lineman room.

With Madden now officially in the fold, my projected starting offensive line is LT- Fisher, LG- Patterson, C- Correll, RG- Madden, RT- Lugg. Tosh Baker and Rocco Spindler should be the first Tackle and Guard to come off the bench as well. This group can turn out to be really solid with every rep this fall and it will definitely be one of the most intriguing units to watch come Saturday night in Tallahassee to start the season.

This is a big-time transfer get for offensive line coach Jeff Quinn and the offense, and the highly anticipated June recruiting has started early and it’s not even close to done yet.