With the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team's spring practice session officially over, the Blue-Gold game brought mostly good news as it allowed some players to show out heading into the summer and fall. However, there was at least one piece of bad news and the lack of clarity around freshman safety Joey O'Brien's injury is making some ND fans nervous.
O'Brien left the Blue-Gold game early, and he needed help to do it. Later in the scrimmage, the young defender was spotted standing on the sidelines on a pair of crutches. Freeman did not meet with the media after the final practice of the spring session, so there was no explanation on what happened to O'Brien.
Monday came and went, too, and there is still no official word from the Notre Dame Fighting Irish on just what injury the young safety has. Hopefully, it will not stretch very far into the rest of the spring and summer. What Joey O'Brien showed in the spring practice session was a guy who could make a difference in the fall as a true freshman. Assuming he's healthy.
Notre Dame Fighting Irish women's basketball final ranking
Now that the basketball Transfer Portal season is officially over, The Athletic released its final post-portal rankings. In other words, the publication released what it believes will be some of the best teams to start the 2026-27 season.
The Athletic has unveiled their WBB post-portal Top 25:
— E J 🏀 (@EJayArrow) April 27, 2026
1. South Carolina
2. UConn
3. USC
4. Michigan
5. Notre Dame
6. LSU
7. Louisville
8. Vanderbilt
9. Minnesota
10. Duke
11. Washington
12. UCLA
13. Texas
14. Iowa
15. Nebraska
16. TCU
17. Oklahoma
18. Maryland
19. Kentucky…
The Notre Dame Fighting Irish women's basketball team finished No. 5 in those rankings. It appears Niele Ivey's team is on the upswing after a couple of years when there were real questions about its direction.
More Notre Dame Fighting Irish news
- Aneyas Williams shed his red jersey for the Blue-Gold game to show just what he could do when taking contact. When he was asked after the game about deciding to go full contact for the last scrimmage of the spring, he made it clear it's because he wants to win the starting job for the fall: "The position that I'm finally in, that I've been waiting for the last two years, I couldn't just sit there and watch."
- Now that the NFL Draft is over for this year, lists about who will feature prominently in the 2027 version are showing up all over the internet. It turns out the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, which is expected to have a ton of talent this fall, could see three members go in the first round, according to one Mock Draft. Leonard Moore, Boubacar Traore, and Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asa should all go in the first round, according to CBS Sports' Cooper Petagna.
- Both the Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's and women's tennis teams are headed to the NCAA Tournament. Both teams found out their fate on Monday during the selection show. The women's team is going back to the dance for the fourth straight year. The men are making their 29th NCAA appearance over the last 36 years.
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