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What does leadership look like? The 2025 Notre Dame football team is about to find out

Eric Hansenby: Eric Hansen07/07/25EHansenND
Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman
Notre Dame head football coach Marcus Freeman talks to his team after a practice session. Jeff Douglas, Inside ND Sports

The most consequential detail of Charles Jagusah’s holiday weekend UTV ride-gone-wrong isn’t what triggered the fracture of his left humerus and detoured what promised to be a season that put him squarely in a conversation to become an All-American. It’s how the Notre Dame football redshirt sophomore offensive guard gets back up from it. The leadership around him matters, too.

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