Notre Dame’s spring begins with questions aplenty on its defensive depth chart

Notre Dame starts spring practices today, 85 days after the 2020 season ended on New Year’s Day. These 15 spring practices start 2-3 weeks later than they would in normal times, the result of a brief winter workout pause while the Irish program navigated some positive coronavirus test results and of the logic that Notre Dame’s campus would be in a better situation, pandemic-wise, later in the spring.

With the University planning to open an on-campus vaccination center in mid-April to accommodate all students, faculty and staff, that logic has held up as much as could be hoped for.

This space paced itself, slacked off and focused energies on other day-to-day items such that it now publishes…