{"id":379672,"date":"2025-12-31T11:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/379672\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T11:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:30:10","slug":"notre-dame-de-joshua-burnham-expected-to-enter-transfer-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/379672\/","title":{"rendered":"Notre Dame DE Joshua Burnham expected to enter Transfer Portal"},"content":{"rendered":"

With one year of eligibility remaining, Notre Dame defensive end Joshua Burnham<\/a> is expected to enter the NCAA Transfer Portal when it officially opens on Jan. 2. He announced Tuesday his plan to enter the portal on Instagram.<\/p>\n

He appeared in all 12 of Notre Dame\u2019s games in 2025 and played the fifth-most snaps among the Irish defensive ends, behind Boubacar Traore, Bryce Young, Jordan Botelho and Junior Tuihalamaka, in that order. <\/p>\n

Burnham, who completed his Notre Dame degree requirements last summer, totaled 235 snaps on the season, according to Pro Football Focus. His overall defense score on the year was 74.6.<\/p>\n

The Traverse City, Mich. native will look to be the defensive end for a program in 2026, rather than a rotational piece at Notre Dame for his final season.<\/p>\n

Burnham recorded his first career sack in the first game of his redshirt freshman season in 2023. He\u2019s been a regular part of Notre Dame\u2019s defensive line rotation ever since that game against Navy in Dublin, Ireland.<\/p>\n

Despite starting for Notre Dame in the 34-23 loss to Ohio State in the College Football Playoff National Championship game in January, Burnham lost his starting spot to sophomore defensive end\u00a0Bryce Young<\/a>\u00a0in the preseason. Young was named the starter on the initial Week 1 depth chart, and Burnham didn\u2019t even receive an \u201cor\u201d designation for players who will heavily rotate.<\/p>\n

He totaled 16 tackles, 6 tackles for loss and 3 sacks in his 12-game senior season. Across his 40 career contests, Burnham recorded 65 tackles, 6 sacks, 1 forced fumble and 1 fumble recovery.<\/p>\n

Burnham started 10 games and tallied 30 tackles, 6.5 tackles for loss and 2 sacks during the 2024 season while being limited by a left ankle injury that lingered from the second game of the season and forced him to be sidelined for two full games.<\/p>\n

Burnham was a part of Notre Dame head coach\u2019s Marcus Freeman<\/a>\u2018s first recruiting class, when he was the program\u2019s defensive coordinator. The Irish signed Burnham as a linebacker prospect, and quickly transitioned to defensive end during a freshman season in which he played just one game. <\/p>\n

He committed to the Irish on his 17th birthday, giving Freeman a marquee recruiting victory over Alabama, Michigan and Ohio State. Burnham played in the 2022 All-American Bowl after a decorated high school career. He was the 2021 MLive and Gatorade Michigan High School Football Player of the Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With one year of eligibility remaining, Notre Dame defensive end Joshua Burnham is expected to enter the NCAA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,185574,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-379672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-joshua-burnham-22-central","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-ncaafootball","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}