During his playing days as an outside linebacker at the University of Michigan in the mid-1990s, current 12th-year Notre Dame assistant Mike Elston said his greatest source of agitation came on the Friday nights before the game while not having a truly defined role in the game the following day. Eleven of his defensive linemen played at least 141 snaps (or just over 10 per game), and only fifth-year senior ends Ade Ogundeji and Daelin Hayes had over 400, or an average between 35 to 40 per game. The threshold that Elston usually has for a defensive lineman is about 50 per contest in an effort to keep fresh legs over the course of an arduous season.