Breaking down NFL Draft history for Notre Dame football transfers
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SOUTH BEND — If Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza is selected first overall this April in the NFL Draft, he will be the third straight transfer accorded that honor. Fellow quarterbacks Cam Ward (2024) and Caleb Williams (2023) went 1-1 (first round, first pick) after transferring a combined three times during their college careers. Ward sent from Incarnate Word to Washington State and finally to Miami; Williams followed coach Lincoln Riley from Oklahoma to USC. Going back almost a decade, transfers have been taken with the top overall pick six times in the past nine years. Baker Mayfield (2018), Kyler Murray (2019) and Joe Burrow (2020) were the first names called by NFL Commissioner...