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Newsstand: On3's Chris Low says Notre Dame's Marcus Freeman 'will be in the NFL'

IMG_9992by: Tyler Horka05/08/26tbhorka

On3’s Chris Low has spent a lot of time around Notre Dame this offseason. In the last few weeks, he’s written profiles on Marcus Freeman and CJ Carr.

He has thoughts on the former’s future.

On a podcast with Andy Staples and Ari Wasserman, Low said he believes Freeman “will be in the NFL at some point.”

“He will be a head coach in the NFL,” Low said. “There’s too much interest at that level.”

Freeman, of course, was a hot name for head coaching vacancies of the Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Giants a few months ago. His name was thrown around in Chicago Bears circles just over a year ago. He didn’t get any of those three jobs, but as he accumulates more success in South Bend and as he gets more and more connected to NFL jobs it becomes more of a matter of time feeling as it relates to his chances of proving Low — and so many others — right.

“People I know in the NFL, they love his ability to connect with players. They love the fact that he’s been a player caller on defense, he’s called his own plays, that he’s coached at a place now like Notre Dame,” Low said.

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