Jack Kiser Selected in fourth round by jaguars

Notre Dame team captain Jack Kiser has been selected in the fourth round with the 107th overall pick of the 2025 NFL Draft by the Jacksonville Jaguars on Saturday. Kiser is the sixth Notre Dame player all-time to be drafted to Jacksonville and the first since Sheldon Day in 2016. He joins former Irish OL Robert Hainsey on the Jaguars roster. 

Kiser completed his sixth season playing for the Irish in 2024 and led the team to wins in the Sugar Bowl and the Orange Bowl, as well as a National Championship appearance. He holds the record for most games ever played at Notre Dame with 70 games played. Former Notre Dame QB Malik Zaire is amazed with what the defensive leader has accomplished and talked about it on Lucky Lefty Podcast.

“This will never be done again,” Zaire shared. “Seventy games is crazy. It just shows how committed he is to being the best version of himself and how he puts the program and team before everything. That record is going to stand forever. No one is going to eclipse that.”

Kiser notched 275 career tackles, 16 tackles for loss, six sacks, four interceptions (two pick-sixes), 11 passes defended, six forced fumbles and a blocked kick over his career. 

He was the leader of a dominant Notre Dame defense this past with 90 tackles and comes on the tails of his 65 tackles in the 2023 season placed him third among Irish defenders and his 58 tackles in 2022 ranked him second on the team. He has been a model of consistency for a Notre Dame defense that peaked as one of the best defenses against the pass ranking fourth in passing yards allowed (169.4), fourth in scoring defense (15.5), fifth in passes intercepted (19) and 11th in total defense (307.4).

Kiser led and participated in several community-facing initiatives during his time at Notre Dame. He twice served as the player committee chairman for the program’s Cleats For a Cause initiative, and he served as the Fighting Irish Fight for Life football team lead for the past three years. Additionally, Kiser worked with local low-income families to perform tax returns this past spring on a weekly basis leading up to Tax Day. He has also made an impact in his home community, as he visited his former youth football team to surprise local kids from his area, spend time with the team, and give them tickets to a Notre Dame Football game.