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Brian Kelly Provides Updates On His Program At Football 101 Event

Brian and Paqui Kelly put on their seventh annual Football 101 event for the Kelly Cares Foundation on Tuesday.
Brian and Paqui Kelly put on their seventh annual Football 101 event for the Kelly Cares Foundation on Tuesday.
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The months-long decision by Irish senior receiver Corey Robinson on whether to continue his football career will be revealed Wednesday, head coach Brian Kelly said at the annual Kelly Cares Foundation Football 101 event Tuesday.

Robinson, who missed almost all of spring practice with a concussion, saw a specialist for medical advice in April and will release a statement through the program Wednesday.

“We provided him information and then I talked to his dad,” Kelly said. “His dad has been very, very involved in the process. Then that becomes an individual decision, much like a draft decision. We're going to give you some of our insight and info and then provide you with these resources and then you can make the decision that's best for you.”

Robinson did not participate in Notre Dame’s workouts with The Program Athletics.

“We met on Thursday,” Kelly said. “We had a further conversation [Tuesday] and we know what we want to do.”

Robinson has played in 38 games in three seasons for the Irish. His sophomore season was the most productive, when he caught 40 passes for 539 yards and five touchdowns.

Quick hits

• Junior cornerback Nick Watkins (fractured humerus) “looks good and has “got good healing” on his injured arm, Kelly said.

The Irish cornerbacks lost another player to injury this summer when senior Devin Butler suffered a re-fractured foot. The initial injury kept him out of the Fiesta Bowl loss to Ohio State.

• Junior defensive end Grant Blankenship remains suspended from the team and has to “check some boxes in terms of what I want to see from him and progress academically,” Kelly said.

The head coach indicated a change in status will not likely occur until the end of summer school.

• During a radio appearance with Sportsbeat 960 from Football 101 on Tuesday, Kelly indicated that the No. 1 jersey will be passed from player to player each week this season based on criteria on and off the field.

Kelly and his wife, Paqui, put on the Kelly Cares Foundation’s seventh annual Football 101 event inside Loftus Center on Tuesday.

Women that signed up received a lesson football basics fom the Irish coaches and players.

“What I'm struck by is going into our seventh year is we're still able to attract 600 women every year, I think that says a lot about this community, Michiana in particular, keeps coming out and supporting this event and obviously breast cancer awareness and health issues are the cornerstone of this,” Kelly said. “If we have the same kind of year that we've had, we're going to raise $750,000 in total since we began this. Again, three-quarters of a million dollars raised in the Michiana area for this event I think just says so much for this event and this community.”

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