If there is one injured player that Notre Dame football is most excited about coming back for the Sugar Bowl, it would have to be running back Jeremiyah Love. The running back keeps showing exactly why the Irish love having the young man in their backfield.
Speaking for the last time before the Irish take on Georgia in the Sugar Bowl, Marcus Freeman addressed whether or not Love will be back for the big game. Luckily, the head coach said that Love is as “healthy as possible,” for the College Football Playoffs.
The Notre Dame football coach also said that he’s going to make sure that Love will stay healthy. And he’ll do it the same way he did against Indiana. By giving Jadarian Price plenty of playing time as well.
Notre Dame football runningback is ‘as healthy as possible’ for Sugar Bowl
“Yeah, both of them are healthy. You know, J-Love was a little banged up last week after the USC game, but he’s going to be as healthy as he can be for this opportunity tomorrow,” Freeman told the assembled media.
“It’s something we’ve done in my three years as a head coach, with Coach [Deland] McCullough being our running backs coach, is that we pride ourselves on being able to rotate running backs and sell it in a way in recruiting and to your current players of we’re going to get you enough film to get you prepared for the next level, but we’re also going to make sure you’re healthy. We don’t want you to use every rep you have in your body in college.”
“And so, they buy into that. They’ve done a great job within the roles that have been determined for them. Aneyas Williams is another guy that’s really stepped up as a freshman this year.
It’s very similar to what you see Georgia does. They have multiple running backs that can hurt you in different ways.”
Notre Dame football will have a full backfield for the game against Georgia. That should scare the Bulldogs.