Notre Dame football Blue-Gold Game injury report: Several players sidelined
Notre Dame holds its annual Blue-Gold Game on Saturday. There are a slew of Fighting Irish players who won’t be able to participate because of injuries.
Here is a full list of those players.
- Senior tight end Kevin Bauman
- Freshman offensive tackle Ty Chan
- Junior running back Logan Diggs
- Junior tight end Mitchell Evans
- Sophomore walk-on tight end Justin Fisher
- Freshman cornerback Christian Gray
- Graduate student defensive back Thomas Harper
- Senior cornerback Cam Hart
- Freshman defensive lineman Devan Houstan
- Senior walk-on running back Chase Ketterer
- Graduate student linebacker Jack Kiser
- Junior linebacker Prince Kollie
- Junior walk-on tight end Barret Liebentritt
- Freshman safety Ben Minich
- Junior walk-on wide receiver Jack Polian
- Sophomore tight end Eli Raridon
- Graduate student walk-on safety Eddie Scheidler
- Freshman safety Adon Shuler
- Senior walk-on tight end Charlie Selna
- Sophomore running back Jadarian Price
- Graduate student walk-on running back Skip Velotta
Many of these injuries were common knowledge before Notre Dame announced them prior to Thursday’s Blue-Gold Game draft. Bauman and Raridon, for instance, have been recovering from ACL injuries since the middle of last fall. Price has been rehabbing an injured Achilles since last summer.
Diggs has been nursing a nagging lower-body injury for most of the spring. He’s been in and out of practice. He injured his shoulder in last year’s Blue-Gold Game, so it’s not surprising Notre Dame is holding him out this year for precautionary reasons.
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Evans has been wearing a heavy brace on his elbow all spring. He hasn’t missed any time in practices the media has been able to view. With him out and Bauman and Raridon unavailable, the only healthy scholarship tight ends for the Blue-Gold Game are sophomore Holden Staes and junior Davis Sherwood, a former walk-on.
Gray had a knee scope earlier this spring. Minich had surgery on his thumb. Harper and Hart have been limited all spring coming back from offseason shoulder surgeries. Kollie has been in concussion protocol for over a week now.
The Blue-Gold Game kicks off from Notre Dame Stadium streaming exclusively on Peacock at 2 p.m. ET Saturday. Last year, the Gold Team won 13-10 on a scrambling, 10-yard touchdown run from quarterback Steve Angeli as time expired.
