Eight Notre Dame football players make Lindy's Sports position rankings

Lindy’s Sports college football preview magazine ranked the top players at each position. Here’s where eight Notre Dame stars landed.

Jeremiyah Love: No. 1 running back

Love is the near-unanimous top running back in college football entering the 2025 season. He rushed 163 times for 1,125 yards and 17 touchdowns as a sophomore, adding 28 receptions for 237 yards and 2 touchdowns as a pass-catcher.

While a lingering knee injury hampered him in the College Football Playoff, he still delivered two of the most memorable runs in recent Notre Dame history: a 98-yard scamper to open the scoring in the first round against Indiana and a 2-yard run that included 4 broken tackles in the Orange Bowl against Penn State.

Leonard Moore: No. 1 cornerback

Moore is considered the best cornerback in college football by many outlets after his true freshman season. He was the No. 42 corner in the 2024 On3 Industry Ranking, but after just one season in a Notre Dame uniform, he has reached top-tier status.

Moore entered the starting lineup midseason and immediately proved he belonged, and then some. He allowed completions on only 46.4 percent of his 56 targets for 293 yards (5.2 yards per attempt), while also earning an 86.5 PFF grade as a run defender. His breakthrough earned him FWAA Freshman Defensive Player of the Year honors, as well as a freshman All-American nod.

Billy Schrauth: No. 7 guard

Schrauth allowed only 8 quarterback pressures in 2024, producing the team’s highest Pro Football Focus pass-blocking grade. He did that despite missing four games due to an ankle injury that we would later learn required surgery. Notre Dame thought he could become one of the nation’s best guards last year; he didn’t quite reach that level but he might in 2025 with a full, healthy season.

Aamil Wagner: No. 8 offensive tackle

Wagner proved himself as one of the steadiest tackles in American last season, starting all 16 games for Notre Dame. His length and agility make him a pain to go up against in both the run and pass game, and his 79.5 PFF offense grade was the third-highest of any offensive starter (Love and Riley Leonard).

Jaden Greathouse: No. 9 wide receiver

The preseason magazines love Greathouse, with Athlon Sports writing that he has All-American potential. If he picks up where he left off after his prolific end to the 2024 season, it’s hard to disagree.

Greathouse finished his sophomore year with an inauspicious stat line: 42 receptions for 592 yards and 4 touchdowns. However, 13 of those receptions, 233 of those yards and 3 of those touchdowns came in the final two games. Greathouse established himself as a name to know throughout college football in the Orange Bowl and national title game, and he set himself up for a big junior season.

Drayk Bowen: No. 11 linebacker

Something clicked for Bowen, a talented linebacker in his first season as a starter, around Week 8 of the 2024 season. Since then, he’s been one of the nation’s best linebackers. Bowen missed only 5.7 percent of his tackling attempts last year, which ranked second among all qualified returning Power Four linebackers in the country.

Bowen finished 2024 with 78 tackles (including 4 for loss) and a team-high 3 forced fumbles. The punishing Mike linebacker is set to take on a larger role in the Notre Dame defense this season.

Jadarian Price: No. 16 running back

Price ran 120 times for 746 yards (6.2 yards per attempt) and 7 scores last season. None were bigger than his 47-yarder for Notre Dame’s first touchdown of the year, which gave the Irish a 13-6 lead over Texas A&M. Price also ran well when Love (knee) went down in critical games against USC and Georgia. Only Penn State (Kaytron Allen) can say it has a better No. 2 back.

Malachi Fields: No. 17 wide receiver

Fields transferred to Notre Dame from Virginia, and some outlets are expecting big things from the 6-foot-4, 223-pound boundary receiver. He’s huge, faster than you would expect for his size and comes with a track record of production. Fields put up back-to-back 800-yard seasons despite a shaky quarterback situation with the Cavaliers.