{"id":640122,"date":"2026-04-30T07:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/640122\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T07:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:48:08","slug":"what-was-notre-dames-2026-nfl-draft-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/640122\/","title":{"rendered":"What was Notre Dame\u2019s 2026 NFL Draft Score?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish football program represented itself quite well in the 2026 NFL Draft. The Irish had 6 players selected over the 3 day and 7 round event. The major highlights for Notre Dame from this past draft was running back Jeremiyah Love being selected by the Arizona Cardinals with the #3 pick, and with the last pick in the first round, the Seattle Seahawks<\/a> called the name of running back Jadarian Price.<\/p>\n

Notre Dame made history with those two selections, and they increased its lead for the most NFL Draft picks in history. So it all had me wondering\u2026 just how good of a draft was this for Notre Dame?<\/p>\n

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As much as I hate math, I feel like math is probably needed here \u2014 but I still hate math enough not to try and get too tricky with it either. (And yeah\u2026 I\u2019m terrible at anything other than basic math, so don\u2019t judge me Judgy Jude). So, I assigned each round with a value, but for the 1st round I gave extra weight to those in the top 5 and the top 10. Perhaps I should have split all of the rounds up into three parts, but again\u2026 that\u2019s more math.<\/p>\n

And now I\u2019m starting to think someone else has probably done this somewhere else (and obviously better) but I move onward.<\/p>\n

ROUND<\/p>\n

PICK VALUE<\/p>\n

1 (1-5)<\/p>\n

15<\/p>\n

1 (6-10)<\/p>\n

12<\/p>\n

1 (11-32)<\/p>\n

10<\/p>\n

2<\/p>\n

8<\/p>\n

3<\/p>\n

7<\/p>\n

4<\/p>\n

5<\/p>\n

5<\/p>\n

4<\/p>\n

6<\/p>\n

2<\/p>\n

7<\/p>\n

1<\/p>\n

So, I couldn\u2019t just use Notre Dame as the only team scored. That wouldn\u2019t help much \u2014 but I also don\u2019t have the time and\/or skill to do the entire country either. I scored some of the biggest draft schools we\u2019ve seen over the years, and I threw in USC as well just to prove that they are cowards that just can\u2019t stack up to what Notre Dame has across the field from them.<\/p>\n

Without anymore commentary, here are the scores I collected for the last 5 years. Make of it what you will.<\/p>\n

TEAM<\/p>\n

2026<\/p>\n

2025<\/p>\n

2024<\/p>\n

2023<\/p>\n

2022<\/p>\n

Notre Dame Fighting Irish<\/p>\n

45 \/ 6<\/p>\n

30 \/ 6<\/p>\n

43 \/ 7<\/p>\n

18 \/ 3<\/p>\n

14 \/ 2<\/p>\n

Ohio State Buckeyes<\/p>\n

90 \/ 11<\/p>\n

93 \/ 14<\/p>\n

32 \/ 4<\/p>\n

51 \/ 6<\/p>\n

41 \/ 6<\/p>\n

Michigan Wolverines<\/a><\/p>\n

33 \/ 6<\/p>\n

56 \/ 7<\/p>\n

69 \/ 13<\/p>\n

45 \/ 9<\/p>\n

39 \/ 5<\/p>\n

Clemson Tigers<\/p>\n

61 \/ 9<\/p>\n

8 \/ 3<\/p>\n

33 \/ 6<\/p>\n

39 \/ 6<\/p>\n

9 \/2<\/p>\n

USC Trojans<\/p>\n

21 \/ 3<\/p>\n

13 \/ 3<\/p>\n

34 \/ 7<\/p>\n

26 \/ 4<\/p>\n

22 \/ 3<\/p>\n

Georgia Bulldogs<\/p>\n

54 \/ 8<\/p>\n

74 \/ 13<\/p>\n

57 \/ 8<\/p>\n

62 \/ 10<\/p>\n

107 \/ 15<\/p>\n

Alabama Crimson Tide<\/p>\n

49 \/ 10<\/p>\n

43 \/ 7<\/p>\n

65 \/ 10<\/p>\n

81 \/ 10<\/p>\n

57 \/ 7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Notre Dame Fighting Irish football program represented itself quite well in the 2026 NFL Draft. The Irish…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[17076,1258,64,63,133458,713,593,147331,8443,715,1254,85,1228],"class_list":["post-640122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-2026-nfl-draft","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-jeremiyah-love","tag-michigan-wolverines","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-draft-picks","tag-notre-dame","tag-notre-dame-fighting-irish","tag-seattle-seahawks","tag-sports","tag-usc-trojans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}