Roster Rundown | by Jay

UND.com just released the fall roster, complete with jersey numbers for all the frosh:

James Aldridge - 34 Sergio Brown - 31 Ryan Burkhart - 39 Matt Carufel - 73 Zach Frazer - 12 Jashaad Gaines - 29 Barry Gallup - 21 Leonard Gordon - 24 Richard Jackson - 80 Demetrius Jones - 4 Eric Maust - 43 Raehson McNeil - 8 Paddy Mullen - 93 Eric Olsen - 55 Robby Parris - 82

Munir Prince - 25 Konrad Reuland - 88 Morrice Richardson - 53 John Ryan - 90 Luke Schmidt - 32 Toryan Smith - 49 Chris Stewart - 59 Kallen Wade - 97 Darrin Walls - 2 Bartley Webb - 71 Dan Wenger - 51 George West - 19 Will Yeatman - 84 Sam Young - 74

Other roster notes of interest:

• Travis Leitko is on the roster and thus, I presume, officially back on the team. Welcome back, Trav!

• Is Junior Jabbie back on the team? Well, he's on the roster and that's always a good start. Listed as a running back, Jabbie would add depth to a position that may lose Travis Thomas to linebacker.

• Some of the weights seem slightly adjusted from last year, but most don't. Take all weights with a grain of salt for now.

• As for the numbers themselves, speedy and shifty Munir Prince has #25. No pressure, kid. And #39, the number most recently worn by Brandon Hoyte, Notre Dame's eighth-best all-time tackler, goes to....the kicker? Speaking of linebackers, Anthony Vernaglia ditched his #4 jersey in favor of a more traditional linebacker number, #54. Darrin Bragg also switched from #7 to #81. The move makes sense since he's no longer a quarterback and now plays wide receiver. But that also leaves #7 open...for 2007.

• Abdel Banda seems to be missing from the roster. He's been injured nearly his whole career at ND. Maybe his injuries finally got the best of him and he had to shut it down.