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Former Notre Dame football quarterback Riley Leonard got his first taste of the NFL on Thursday, and played well.

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Former Notre Dame quarterback Riley Leonard played the whole second half in his NFL preseason debut on Thursday for the Indianapolis Colts.

One of the only two transfer QB1s, who played in the final, had two TDs on 21-of-30 passing to go along with a rushing TD.

Notre Dame went back to the ACC for Duke transfer Riley Leonard, who after a slow start — for the senior and the Irish — has become the face of this year’s march to the national semifinals.

In addition to Notre Dame freshman quarterback CJ Carr and 2025 nonbinding pledge Deuce Knight, who drove over from Lucedale, Miss., Leonard got to hang with a half-dozen members of his new Irish ...

Leonard was a threat on the ground, but Notre Dame held him to just six carries and just a few designed runs. “What I challenged them to be, I wanted it to be unrecognizable,” Freeman said.

In seven games this season, including a 21-14 home loss to Notre Dame on Sept. 30, Leonard passed for 1,102 yards, three touchdowns and three interceptions.

Leonard has completed 232 of 349 passes (66.5%) for 2,383 yards, 18 touchdowns and six interceptions, while also adding 149 rushes for 831 yards and 15 touchdowns for Notre Dame this season.

And he’s 8-5 as a starter in those games. None of this is necessarily a bad thing. Leonard also arrives at Notre Dame with perhaps more raw ability than the quarterbacks who preceded him.