Notre Dame, Ind. — Welcome to Overreaction Wednesday in the Notre Dame media stratosphere, starring everyone in need of something to write after another brief practice viewing.

Context: Notre Dame has a scrimmage tomorrow—a more important practice to be sure—and is three practices from the conclusion of its training camp (14 sessions) before game preparations begin. And illnesses have run through the team of late. And most important—if you’ve been following along the last six years, the Irish use GPS monitoring for their players to manage their workloads.

All of that makes more sense than a rash of injuries impacting the offensive line or, notably, Patterson. Doesn’t mean none of them is hurt, injured or otherwise out—in fact, it’s likely someone is—but context can be found outside 140 characters on Twitter.

The Irish worked on kickoff return today with the following return men: running back Chris Tyree, wide receiver Braden Lenzy (they appeared to be simultaneous at first before rotation began), wide receiver Lorenzo Styles and freshman running back Gi’Bran Payne, and freshman WR Tobias Merriweather.

Update: Merriweather can scoot…

Blocking for the quintet (facing scout team kickoff coverage) was Audric Estime, Joshua Burnham, Bo Bauer, Xavier Watts, Brandon Joseph, Junior Tuihalamaka, Matt Salerno, Davis Sherwood, and Chris Velotta.

JD Bertrand joined the blockers as did Jordan Botelho while Jaden Mickey joined the returners.

It would be speculation to offer who was first unit and who was second unit because they clearly split the field in half for quicker reps, but the following lined up in the Back Seven Nickel (Defensive linemen including Vypers remanned in their own drills):

Editor’s Note: I didn’t ONLY watch this drill, so there’s a good chance cornerbacks Ryan Barnes and Philip Riley were opposite each other in a rep that I missed—before or after Morrison and Tucker.

Also worth noting (arguably): Both a colleague and I counted eight cornerbacks (including Bellamy). But neither saw Riley who would make No. 9. All other eight were accounted for…again, over FIVE periods, not the full 18.

Freshman guard Billy Schrauth repped with tackles Blake Fisher, Joe Alt, and Ty Chan today. I believe that’s because Harry Hiestand’s crew was light four tackles (Baker, Carmody, Johnson, and Wagner). In fact, I’m sure of it…but feel free to speculate otherwise, that’s your August Camp right of passage until forgetting about freshmen for awhile…

A few notes from the opening drill (when the Irish don’t do ball security, they usually do this tag-off drill in which the receiver has a chance to juke the defender in short space. (actually, medium space…you SHOULD be able to make him miss in my opinion).

A ‘We Landed on the Moon! Speed Report:

Notre Dame ended stretches with a bit of a full line sprint—not all out sprint, mind you, but you could see who can really move—and were divided into groupings of DBs and WRs…then RBs, TE, QB…then DE, LBs…then big linemen…and the following ‘won’ each heat.

Braden Lenzy, Chris Tyree, Isaiah Foskey…and nobody. All of the linemen wisely ‘sprinted’ about 15 yards, not 30-40.

Our next viewing is Friday, inside Notre Dame Stadium, for the full practice. Of course, they scrimmage tomorrow, but beggars can’t be choosers.

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