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It’s the bad news Notre Dame Football fans were looking to avoid this Christmas season. On Monday, Irish head coach Marcus Freeman announced that defensive tackle Rylie Mills will miss the upcoming game against the Georgia Bulldogs in the Sugar Bowl — as well as the remainder of the season — due to an injury suffered in Notre Dame’s win over the Indiana Hoosiers in the first round of the College Football Playoff.
Freeman also announced several other changes to the injury chart moving forward.
“A couple of injury updates, just for this week, Charles Jagusah will be available. Rocco Spindler is questionable. We’ll see how he progresses over the next couple of days. Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asa will be questionable. We anticipate him getting out to practice this week and trying to get to return to play. Bodie Kahoun and KK Smith are both questionable, and then Rylie Mills will be out for the remainder of the College Football Playoffs with a knee injury.”
Mills is a huge loss along the defensive front, so there’s no sugar-coating the situation. HOWEVER… the Irish have been blessed with the work put in by the other rotational guys, so there is some hope that this won’t be devastating to Notre Dame’s chances.