Player Dossier

2023-2025

Notre Dame

Ben Minich

S • 6'0" • 191 lbs • West Chester, OH, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Ben Minich shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

1%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

7

Developing production for a safety

lowelite

Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

19

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2023 Postseason · Notre Dame

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Notre Dame
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Stanford
4★

Recruit Profile

Class 2023 · Rating 0.9025

Lakota West · West Chester, OH

Committed To
Notre Dame
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Ben Minich, S. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2023 Postseason · Notre Dame. Ben Minich shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
10
TFL
0.5
Sacks
0.5
Passes defended
1

Quick Answers

Ben Minich quick answers

Latest team and position
Notre Dame · S
Career Tackles
10
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 4 entries · 8 games
Best season
2023 Postseason · Notre Dame
Top game
Stanford
Recruit profile
4-star · Lakota West · Notre Dame
High school pipeline
Lakota West · 36 FBS recruits · 3 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 13 · Sophomore
2025 Tackles rank
1 tackles · S 502nd (top 90%) · FBS Independents 67th (top 73%) · National 4,935th (top 80%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 PostseasonNotre Dame11-0--038.1
2024 PostseasonNotre Dame61-0--033.4
2024 Regular SeasonNotre Dame670.50.5-1033.4
2025 Regular SeasonNotre Dame11-0--036.7

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2026Notre Dame to Miami (OH)G5/FCS to G5/FCS19.4Jan 8, 2026

Ben Minich played S for Notre Dame. Across 3 tracked seasons, Ben Minich recorded 10 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Notre Dame.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2023 Postseason

Notre Dame paired 0 primary output with 4.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 4.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2025 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Syracuse

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

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2025 Regular Season · Notre Dame

Games

1

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

4.2

Usage

0.7

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Syracuse

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All Games0 · Games = 1

Game Log

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1 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Syracuse

Best efficiency game

4.2 vs Syracuse

Result
Sat 11/22vs SyracuseW 70-711000

Career Arc

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    Notre Dame

    2023-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2023202420242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 PostseasonNotre Dame04.21.2
2024 PostseasonNotre Dame28.91.62
2024 Regular SeasonNotre Dame28.91.60
2025 Regular SeasonNotre Dame04.20.7-2

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Stanford

Week 7 · W 49-7

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

56.9 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 56.9 takeover score.

#2

vs Army

Week 13 · W 49-14

1

Havoc Plays

36.7 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 36.7 takeover score.

#3

@ USC

Week 14 · W 49-35

0

Havoc Plays

6.7 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.7 takeover score.

#4

vs Oregon State

Week 1 · W 40-8 · Postseason

0

Havoc Plays

4.7 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 4.7 takeover score.

#5

vs Indiana

Week 1 · W 27-17 · Postseason

0

Havoc Plays

3.9 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.9 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2023 Postseason · Notre Dame

0 primary output · 4.2 efficiency · 1.2 usage

38.1

#2

2025 Regular Season · Notre Dame

36.7

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.7 usage

#3

2024 Postseason · Notre Dame

33.4

2 primary · 8.9 efficiency · 1.6 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games