Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Notre Dame's top projected fantasy scorer for the 2026 season is CJ Carr, a QB projected for 272.1 points (overall rank #780 among every FBS draftable player on the board). Across its top 10 board-ranked players, Notre Dame projects for 1294.3 combined fantasy points — 123.2 points above the FBS Independents median of 1171.1, ranking #1 of 2 in the conference. Its deepest position group is wide receivers, worth 488.4 combined projected points from 16 rostered players.
Notre Dame is the one FBS Independent Yahoo Sports' 2026 college fantasy product covers, alongside the Power-4 conferences. Saturday Night Showdown carries live projections and a full draft board for all 138 FBS programs — Notre Dame included, but so is every Group of Five program Yahoo leaves out.
Projected points and board slot are Saturday Night Showdown's own 2026 season-long projections and value-based draft board, generated before Week 0 kicks off — not stats from games already played, and not an average of real-world draft results.
2026 Projected Fantasy Points
Top 25 Notre Dame players on the Saturday Night Showdown draft board, ranked by projected fantasy points.
| # | Player | Pos | Proj Pts | Board Slot |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CJ Carr | QB | 272.1 | — |
| 2 | Notre Dame Defense | DEF | 163.1 | 14.01 |
| 3 | Nolan James Jr. | RB | 155.0 | — |
| 4 | Jordan Faison | WR | 146.7 | — |
| 5 | Aneyas Williams | RB | 139.9 | — |
| 6 | Jonaz Walton | RB | 108.9 | — |
| 7 | Micah Gilbert | WR | 103.0 | — |
| 8 | Spencer Porath | K | 97.8 | — |
| 9 | Jaden Greathouse | WR | 59.1 | — |
| 10 | Cooper Flanagan | TE | 48.7 | — |
| 11 | Elijah Burress | WR | 37.4 | — |
| 12 | Kedren Young | RB | 34.1 | — |
| 13 | Noah Grubbs | QB | 31.3 | — |
| 14 | Javian Osborne | RB | 29.8 | — |
| 15 | James Flanigan | TE | 25.8 | — |
| 16 | Mylan Graham | WR | 25.2 | — |
| 17 | Jerome Bettis Jr. | WR | 23.2 | — |
| 18 | Micah Drescher | K | 22.9 | — |
| 19 | Matt Jeffery | WR | 22.4 | — |
| 20 | Devin Fitzgerald | WR | 17.0 | — |
| 21 | Ian Premer | TE | 12.8 | — |
| 22 | Ty Washington | TE | 11.3 | — |
| 23 | Jack Larsen | TE | 11.1 | — |
| 24 | Teddy Jarrard | QB | 11.1 | — |
| 25 | Logan Saldate | WR | 10.9 | — |