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Notre Dame Football 2021: 25 Most Impactful Players, Honorable Mention

By Jack Leniart

SOUTH BEND, IN - AUGUST 30: The mural at the Hesburgh Library, commonly known as "Touchdown Jesus" is seen on the campus of Notre Dame University before a game between the Norte Dame Fighting Irish and the Rice Owls at Notre Dame Stadium on August 30, 2014 in South Bend, Indiana. (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)
SOUTH BEND, IN - AUGUST 30: The mural at the Hesburgh Library, commonly known as "Touchdown Jesus" is seen on the campus of Notre Dame University before a game between the Norte Dame Fighting Irish and the Rice Owls at Notre Dame Stadium on August 30, 2014 in South Bend, Indiana. (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images) /
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SOUTH BEND, INDIANA – NOVEMBER 07: An end zone pylon displays the Notre Dame football and ACC logos at Notre Dame Stadium during the game against the Clemson Tigers at Notre Dame Stadium on November 7, 2020 in South Bend, Indiana. (Photo by Matt Cashore-Pool/Getty Images) /

The Notre Dame football team needs plenty of players to step up in a big way in 2021, and here are those who made honorable mention in our top-25.

As we did last summer, the Slap The Sign staff has compiled our list of the top 25 players that we believe will have the greatest impact on the Notre Dame football team this season. To start our rankings, we begin with those who just missed the cut, coming in as honorable mention players.

We are just over a month away from the start of the 2021 college football season, which means we are in the midst of “prediction and projection season.”

Earlier this month, I reached out to some current and former members of the Slap The Sign staff and asked them to rank the top 25 players who will have the greatest impact on the Irish in 2021. Those who participated submitted a ballot of 25 players ranked in order, and I then took the average ranking of each player and compiled the final list.

No two ballots had the exact same 25 players. Because of that, we ended up with four players that appeared on at least one ballot but fell outside of the top 25 in the final rankings. These four players make up our honorable mention list.

The four players in this year’s honorable mention group coincidentally all play on the defensive side of the ball, where the Irish will be led by new defensive coordinator Marcus Freeman.

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