Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Notre Dame's top projected fantasy scorer for the 2026 season is CJ Carr, a QB projected for 219.0 points (overall rank #805 among every FBS draftable player on the board). Across its top 10 board-ranked players, Notre Dame projects for 1027.6 combined fantasy points — 17.5 points above the FBS Independents median of 1010.1, ranking #1 of 2 in the conference. Its deepest position group is wide receivers, worth 382.0 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 | 219.0 | — |
| 2 | Notre Dame Defense | DEF | 163.1 | 14.01 |
| 3 | Aneyas Williams | RB | 152.4 | — |
| 4 | Jordan Faison | WR | 120.3 | — |
| 5 | Spencer Porath | K | 95.3 | — |
| 6 | Kedren Young | RB | 67.5 | — |
| 7 | Nolan James Jr. | RB | 62.8 | — |
| 8 | Cooper Flanagan | TE | 59.3 | — |
| 9 | Micah Gilbert | WR | 45.6 | — |
| 10 | James Flanigan | TE | 42.3 | — |
| 11 | Mylan Graham | WR | 32.0 | — |
| 12 | Jaden Greathouse | WR | 26.4 | — |
| 13 | Quincy Porter | WR | 25.5 | — |
| 14 | Ty Washington | TE | 22.0 | — |
| 15 | Blake Hebert | QB | 21.6 | — |
| 16 | Teddy Jarrard | QB | 20.4 | — |
| 17 | Noah Grubbs | QB | 20.4 | — |
| 18 | Micah Drescher | K | 20.4 | — |
| 19 | Matt Williams | RB | 19.8 | — |
| 20 | Kurt Smith | RB | 17.4 | — |
| 21 | Xavier Southall | WR | 16.8 | — |
| 22 | Javian Osborne | RB | 16.2 | — |
| 23 | Jonaz Walton | RB | 16.2 | — |
| 24 | Devin Fitzgerald | WR | 15.0 | — |
| 25 | Dylan Faison | WR | 15.0 | — |