SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Junior running back Jadarian Price has been named to the midseason watch list for the Jet Award, which honors college football’s top return specialist.
Notre Dame’s primary kickoff returner, Price has returned eight kickoffs for 340 yards (42.5 average), including two 100-yard kickoff returns for touchdowns.
Price is the only player in the nation with two 100-yard kickoff return touchdowns this season, and ties for the nation’s lead in total kickoff return touchdowns. Price leads the country in kickoff return average (42.5).
Adding his impressive performance as a running back with 76 carries for 509 yards and eight touchdowns, Price ranks third nationally in total touchdowns (11), ninth in all-purpose yards (127.57 per game), ninth in total points (66) and 10th in scoring (9.4 points per game).
Price is the first Notre Dame player ever with multiple kick return touchdowns of 100 yards and just the fourth Notre Dame player since at least 1996 to return multiple kickoffs for touchdowns in the same season. It’s just the fifth kick in program history to be returned 100 yards for a touchdown with two coming from Price this season.
Price is now tied for second all-time in kickoff returns for touchdowns in Notre Dame history with three. He joins Tim Brown, Allen Rossum and CJ Sanders for second all-time, trailing only Raghib Ismail’s five. Price is just the third player in program history to return multiple kickoffs for touchdowns against a single team during their career (Raghib Ismail – Rice, Michigan; Paul Castner – Kalamazoo), as he also returned a kickoff for a touchdown vs. USC in 2023.