The Fighting Irish stars are in the thick of a battle as they bid to earn the starting quarterback spot for the first game of ...

Former Notre Dame football quarterback Riley Leonard got his first taste of the NFL on Thursday, and played well.

Former Notre Dame quarterback Riley Leonard has looked good so far in his first NFL training camp. Last year's Notre Dame ...

Former Notre Dame quarterback Riley Leonard played the whole second half in his NFL preseason debut on Thursday for the Indianapolis Colts.

Notre Dame went back to the ACC for Duke transfer Riley Leonard, who after a slow start — for the senior and the Irish — has become the face of this year’s march to the national semifinals.

In addition to Notre Dame freshman quarterback CJ Carr and 2025 nonbinding pledge Deuce Knight, who drove over from Lucedale, Miss., Leonard got to hang with a half-dozen members of his new Irish ...

Leonard was a threat on the ground, but Notre Dame held him to just six carries and just a few designed runs. “What I challenged them to be, I wanted it to be unrecognizable,” Freeman said.

Leonard has completed 232 of 349 passes (66.5%) for 2,383 yards, 18 touchdowns and six interceptions, while also adding 149 rushes for 831 yards and 15 touchdowns for Notre Dame this season.

Notre Dame quarterback Riley Leonard throws the ball during a Notre Dame football practice at Irish Athletic Center on Wednesday, July 31, 2024, in South Bend. / MICHAEL CLUBB/SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE ...

Notre Dame quarterback Riley Leonard celebrates after a touchdown against Ohio State during the first half of the College Football Playoff national championship game on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in ...

After all, Leonard is often a focal point of the Notre Dame rushing offense with an astonishing 149 carries for 859 yards and 15 touchdowns. A poor man's Tim Tebow? Perhaps.

And he’s 8-5 as a starter in those games. None of this is necessarily a bad thing. Leonard also arrives at Notre Dame with perhaps more raw ability than the quarterbacks who preceded him.