Returning 55 starts among four starters and five more from a veteran utilityman is a starting point most offensive lines would be envious of. All that aside, though, Notre Dame entered the spring without any idea who its center would be after All-American and three-year starter Sam Mustipher ran out of eligibility.
At least, that was how it looked from the outside.
WHERE NOTRE DAME WAS
The wonderings at center made sense. Mustipher had been a mainstay at the pivot point for so long, one highly-touted center-specific recruit had already transferred early in his Irish career (Parker Boudreaux in the summer of 2017).