#42 Julian Okwara / Defensive End
- Height: 6-4
- Weight: 230
- Hometown: Charlotte, NC
- School: Ardrey Kell
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- National Ranking: 301
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Julian Okwara News & Notes
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Notre Dame Player Highlights
Watch: Moment Julian Okwara Found Out He Was Starting NFL Career With His Brother
One of the more special moments of the second round of the NFL Draft last night was when Notre Dame’s Julian Okwara learned he was drafted by the Detroit Lions…
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NFL Draft
Notre Dame DE Julian Okwara Selected 67th by Detroit Lions in NFL Draft
Notre Dame’s Julian Okwara will begin his NFL career on the same team as his older brother Romeo Okwara after being selected 67th overall in the 2020 NFL Draft Friday…
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NFL Draft
Today Should Be a Good Day for Notre Dame Football Draft Hopefulls
Notre Dame did not have a single player drafted in the first round of last night’s NFL Draft, but that shouldn’t have been too surprising since none were projected as…
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Notre Dame Player Highlights
Looking Back At All The Big Plays from Julian Okwara’s Notre Dame Career
Julian Okwara’a Notre Dame career was cut a little short in November when he broke his leg against Duke. Before that Okwara was a mainstay along the Notre Dame defensive…
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NFL Draft
Projecting Where Notre Dame’s Julian Okwara Will Get Drafted
The NFL Draft is just over a week away, and assuming all goes as planned, it’ll probably be the most-watched NFL Draft of all time given the lack of sports…
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Notre Dame Football Injury News & Updates
Notre Dame DE Julian Okwara Out for Year with Fibula Injury
Notre Dame started this season deeper at defensive end than they’ve been in decades. That depth is getting stretched pretty thin after Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly announced that…
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Captains
Notre Dame Needed Its Captains to Step Up in 2019 and They Haven’t
So far there has been a lot of talk about identity and standards following the 45-14 debacle against Michigan. I suppose there is a place for that following this kind…
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Notre Dame Quarterbacks
Quarterbacks Define Key Matchups in Notre Dame Football’s Trip to Ann Arbor
Another major road challenge is on tap for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish as they return from their bye week to face the Michigan Wolverines under the lights. Recent trips…
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5 Things I Liked / Didn't Like
5 Things I Liked in Notre Dame’s Defensive Outburst Against Virginia
Notre Dame went old-school in beating up on Virginia on Saturday. The Irish defense swarmed Virginia quarterback Bryce Perkins and harassed the talented dual-threat signal-caller into mistake after mistake en…
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Matchups
Key Matchups for Notre Dame in Week 2 vs. New Mexico
The Notre Dame Fighting Irish get the home portion of their 2019 schedule underway with a game that really shouldn’t be much of a challenge with their opponent being the…
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Awards
Notre Dame Lands Three on Pre-Season AP All-American Team
Can you feel it Irish fans? That electricity in the air that grows more each day we come closer to seeing those Gold Helmets shining under Papa John’s lights in…
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Captains
Notre Dame Names 7 Captains for 2019 Football Season
After one full week of fall camp in 2019, Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly has named his captains for the season. Kelly tabbed seven players as captains on Saturday,…
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Team News
Hamilton, Okwara, and Vaughn Continue To Star For Notre Dame In Fall Camp
We are five practices in to fall camp 2019 for the Notre Dame football team, and the media has been on hand for two full practices. Not enough to make…
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Analysis
Notre Dame Football’s Top 25 Players for 2019: The Top 5
We have reached the top 5 in our countdown of the top 25 players on the 2019 Notre Dame football roster. Unsurprisingly, the top 5 is full of players on…
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Analysis
Q&A with Notre Dame Insider: Will Ian Book Progress, Bowl Prediction, & More
We were lucky enough to score a Q&A session with Tyler James from the South Bend Tribune’s Notre Dame Insider as we are on the verge of training camp starting…
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Awards
Notre Dame DE Julian Okwara Joins Troy Pride on Feldman’s “Freak List”
The Athletic’s Bruce Feldman has been releasing his yearly “Freak” list again this summer and Notre Dame has landed another defensive player in Feldman’s top 50 with Julian Okwara being…
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NFL Draft
Notre Dame’s Julian Okwara And Khalid Kareem Among Winners Of The NFL Draft
Can you win the draft by not being in the draft? If you can, then the winners were Notre Dame’s star defensive ends who spurned their NFL futures for one…
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NFL & 5th Year Decisions
What a Rush: Julian Okwara Returning to Notre Dame for Senior Season
Notre Dame got some bad news on Friday when Julian Love announced that he would leaving Notre Dame early for the NFL. On Saturday the Irish got a much needed…
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NFL & 5th Year Decisions
Assessing Notre Dame’s 5 (Likely) NFL Evaluation Requests
Notre Dame still has at least one, hopefully two, very important football games to play in 2018. It’s never too early to start thinking about the 2019 season though. Over…
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5 Things I Liked / Didn't Like
5 Things I Liked: Notre Dame v. Northwestern ’18
Notre Dame improved to 9-0 on the season on Saturday night with a 10 point win over Northwestern giving the Irish victories over both of the division leaders of the…
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Beyond the Boxscore
Beyond the Boxscore: INside Notre Dame’s Rollercoaster Ride vs. Northwestern
In a game where momentum seemed to shift back and forth, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish were able to remain undefeated with a 31-21 road win over the Northwestern Wildcats…
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5 Things I Liked / Didn't Like
5 Things I Liked: Notre Dame v. Pitt ’18
Notre Dame survived the first upset Saturday of the college football season on Saturday with a come from behind win over unranked Pitt. While no Irish fan likely walked away…
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Notre Dame Defensive Line
Notre Dame Has Nation’s Highest Rated Pass Rush
We are almost at the half way point of the 2018 season and it appears as though the pass rush that Notre Dame fans have been waiting for for years…
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5 Things I Liked / Didn't Like
5 Things I Liked: Notre Dame vs. Michigan ’18
We’re reviving an old column here this season with the return of 5 Things I Liked, and 5 Things I Didn’t Like. There was a lot to like in Notre…
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Notre Dame Defensive Line
Is The Notre Dame Front Four The Best Unit On The Defense?
Because I’m very smart and know lots of things, I ranked the Notre Dame defensive line the second worst unit on the team prior to the season. This was in…
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