Manti Te'o can clear up two issues immediately. His nose, broken last year in a game against Army, is fine. And his knee, which he had cleaned up with arthroscopic surgery in the offseason, is completely healed. He reports that facial update with a laugh. But there's a serious question looming for Notre Dame's hard-hitting linebacker and the Irish fans who watched him make 133 tackles last season — the most by an Irish defender since 1983.
Could this third season in South Bend be his final one if the NFL beckons?