The 2022 NFL draft was one of the weakest showings for Notre Dame under Brian Kelley since 2017, and with the 2016 regular season being his worst ever ending in a 4-8 record, it makes sense.
With the 2021 regular season ending at 11-1, and with a chance to still make the playoff, it doesn’t make sense. However, it has to make you wonder; did it have to do with the way Kelly left Notre Dame to take the LSU job, and all the drama that followed him and Notre Dame after, that it left a bad taste in every NFL teams mouth? I’m sure the bowl game loss didn’t help either. With that being said, I believe all of this is what likely caused every draft prospect, besides Hamilton and Williams, to slide out of the draft entirely.
Let’s be serious, Notre Dame should have had at lest five players drafted in 2022, and not just two.
Who really knows, and maybe I’m way off here, but that’s the way I see it.