With a flurry of incoming transfers behind the Notre Dame football team and a special five-day transfer portal window opening Tuesday, Jan. 21-25, for outgoing transfers after the CFP National Championship Game, here's a revised look at the work-in-progress 2025 Notre Dame football scholarship chart heading into winter workouts and spring practice.
The NCAA-mandated limit for FBS teams is in a state of flux and is expected to be raised in the offseason, but it remains at 85 for now. If it remained there, Notre Dame wouldn't have to meet that maximum until the first day of classes for the 2025 fall semester.
Players are defined from a class standpoint by their year of eligibility in 2025, not by their year in school. We've designated the 15 freshmen, and a handful of upper classmen, who were able to redshirt this past season.
Players with a + have exercised their COVID exemption to play in 2025, and the two still on the 2025 Irish roster are the last ones who were offered that exemption for the 2020 season. Three incoming transfers fall into that category as well.
Players with an * have redshirted. Players with a ^ redshirted for the first time primarily because of medical reasons. #-Indicates a player who has taken a Mormon Mission. &-Indicates James Rendell's special status as an Australian import with a second year of eligibility guaranteed for 2025 and an active petition for a third in 2026.
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