Former Notre Dame football quarterback Riley Leonard got his first taste of the NFL on Thursday, and played well.

It was a rollercoaster night for all of the Colts’ quarterbacks — including rookie sixth-round pick Riley Leonard. The Notre ...

Former Notre Dame quarterback Riley Leonard played the whole second half in his NFL preseason debut on Thursday for the Indianapolis Colts.

There are interceptions where a defender simply makes a great play, and then there are interceptions on passes that should never be thrown. Leonard will learn the speed of the NFL game as his days in ...

In addition to Notre Dame freshman quarterback CJ Carr and 2025 nonbinding pledge Deuce Knight, who drove over from Lucedale, Miss., Leonard got to hang with a half-dozen members of his new Irish ...

Notre Dame went back to the ACC for Duke transfer Riley Leonard, who after a slow start — for the senior and the Irish — has become the face of this year’s march to the national semifinals.

Leonard was a threat on the ground, but Notre Dame held him to just six carries and just a few designed runs. “What I challenged them to be, I wanted it to be unrecognizable,” Freeman said.

Notre Dame quarterback Riley Leonard celebrates after a touchdown against Ohio State during the first half of the College Football Playoff national championship game on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in ...

Notre Dame quarterback Riley Leonard, #13, throws oranges to his teammates after winning the Orange Bowl College Football Playoff semifinal game against Penn State on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025 in ...

And he’s 8-5 as a starter in those games. None of this is necessarily a bad thing. Leonard also arrives at Notre Dame with perhaps more raw ability than the quarterbacks who preceded him.

After all, Leonard is often a focal point of the Notre Dame rushing offense with an astonishing 149 carries for 859 yards and 15 touchdowns. A poor man's Tim Tebow? Perhaps.