Offensive captain and junior quarterback Brady Quinn will begin the final week of preparation for this weekend's season opener at Pittsburgh with practice on Monday, Aug. 29.

Football Depth Chart For Pittsburgh

Aug. 28, 2005

University of Notre Dame head football coach Charlie Weis announced a projected depth chart for this weekend’s season opener at Pittsburgh (8:00 p.m. EDT, ABC). Coach Weis will hold his first press conference of the season on Sunday, Aug. 28, in the Guglielmino Athletics Complex at 12:30 p.m. EST to discuss the depth chart and any final issues of preseason camp.

A limited transcript of Sunday’s press conference will be posted on www.und.com as soon as it is available.

Coach Weis also will appear at Notre Dame’s traditional Tuesday press conference. This season the press conferences will be at 12 noon (EST, 1 p.m. on the east coast) and can be heard and seen live on www.und.com (for those who have subscribed to Fighting Irish All-Access).

2005 Depth Chart vs. Pittsburgh

Depth Chart in PDF Format


Irish Offense
X 21 Maurice Stovall 6-5 222 Sr. 83 Jeff Samardzija 6-5 216 Jr.
LT 68 Ryan Harris 6-5 288 Jr. 77 M. Turkovich 6-6 290 Fr.
LG 50 Dan Santucci 6-4 290 Sr. 79 Brian Mattes 6-6 285 Sr.
C 76 Bob Morton** 6-4 292 Sr. 78 John Sullivan 6-4 298 Jr.
RG 74 Dan Stevenson 6-6 292 Sr. 62 Scott Raridon 6-7 304 Sr.
RT 73 Mark LeVoir 6-7 311 Sr. 72 Paul Duncan 6-7 292 Fr.
Y 88 Anthony Fasano 6-5 255 Sr. 89 John Carlson 6-6 254 Jr. 87 Marcus Freeman 6-3 245 Sr.
Z 5 Rhema McKnight 6-2 207 Sr. 82 Matt Shelton 6-0 172 Sr.
QB 10 Brady Quinn 6-4 231 Jr. 14 David Wolke 6-2 196 So.
FB 16 R. POWERS-NEAL 6-3 238 Sr. 44 Asaph Schwapp 6-0 250 Fr.
HB 3 Darius Walker 5-10 208 So. 26 Travis Thomas 6-0 215 Jr.
Irish Defense
LE 95 Victor Abiamiri 6-4 260 Jr. 99 Ronald Talley 6-4 261 So.
LT 98 Trevor Laws 6-1 293 Jr. 90 Brian Beidatsch 6-3 294 Sr.
RT 66 Derek Landri 6-3 263 Sr. 57 Stephenson, Jr. 6-2 252 Jr. or 96 Pat Kuntz 6-2 267 Fr.
RE 75 Chris Frome 6-5 268 Sr. 94 Justin Brown 6-3 247 So.
WLB 39 Brandon Hoyte 6-0 236 Sr. 52 Joe Brockington 6-1 212 Jr.
MLB 46 Corey Mays 6-1 234 Sr. 47 Mitchell Thomas 6-3 240 Jr.
Apache 40 M. Crum, Jr. 6-0 220 So. 4 A. Vernaglia 6-3 221 So. or 48 Steve Quinn 6-2 215 Fr.
LCB 22 Ambrose Wooden 5-11 197 Jr. 15 Leo Ferrine 6-0 186 So.
WS 18 Chinedum Ndukwe 6-2 219 Jr. 27 David Bruton 6-2 187 Fr.
SS 9 Tom Zbikowski 6-0 208 Jr. 28 Kyle McCarthy 6-0 189 Fr.
RCB 30 Mike Richardson 5-11 193 Sr. 29 L. Hedgemon II 5-9 190 Jr. or 20 Terrail Lambert 5-11 188 So.