Ben Koyack

Notre Dame has perhaps the nation's longest tradition of producing top-level tight ends, with 2013's Troy Niklas preceded by, in order, Tyler Eifert, Kyle Rudolph, John Carlson and Anthony Fasano. It appears that Koyack is destined to be the next in line. Koyack was encouraging in a part-time role last year, taking his 10 catches for 171 yards and three touchdowns, and now he'll have a shot at seizing the 32 catches for 498 yards and five touchdowns that Niklas produced last year.