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Last year's Notre Dame Fighting Irish starting quarterback is, according to reports, having a good showing in a different ...

Riley Leonard needed a new team. Notre Dame needed a new quarterback. It was the perfect match — and a mutually beneficial partnership as Leonard led the Fighting Irish to the National ...

Notre Dame went back to the ACC for Duke transfer Riley Leonard, who after a slow start — for the senior and the Irish — has become the face of this year’s march to the national semifinals.

Notre Dame quarterback Riley Leonard celebrates after a touchdown against Ohio State during the first half of the College Football Playoff national championship game on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in ...

In addition to Notre Dame freshman quarterback CJ Carr and 2025 nonbinding pledge Deuce Knight, who drove over from Lucedale, Miss., Leonard got to hang with a half-dozen members of his new Irish ...

Notre Dame quarterback Riley Leonard, #13, throws oranges to his teammates after winning the Orange Bowl College Football Playoff semifinal game against Penn State on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025 in ...

Leonard was a threat on the ground, but Notre Dame held him to just six carries and just a few designed runs. “What I challenged them to be, I wanted it to be unrecognizable,” Freeman said.

In seven games this season, including a 21-14 home loss to Notre Dame on Sept. 30, Leonard passed for 1,102 yards, three touchdowns and three interceptions.

Notre Dame piled up 160 points against Virginia, No. 18 Army, Southern California and No. 9 Indiana. Leonard’s quarterback rating his last four games is 106.2, as opposed to a 70.7 quarterback ...

And he’s 8-5 as a starter in those games. None of this is necessarily a bad thing. Leonard also arrives at Notre Dame with perhaps more raw ability than the quarterbacks who preceded him.

After all, Leonard is often a focal point of the Notre Dame rushing offense with an astonishing 149 carries for 859 yards and 15 touchdowns. A poor man's Tim Tebow? Perhaps.