Te’von Coney needs to run fast, Dexter Williams needs to run faster, and Sam Mustipher needs to make his (next) first impression on NFL scouts and general managers as Pro Day 2019 commences for 17 former Notre Dame Football players inside the campus’s Loftus Center.

Williams unexpectedly clocked pedestrian times of 4.57 and 4.58 in the 40-yard dash on March 1 at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis. For the sake of reference, linebacker Drue Tranquill ran the same (4.57). As a result, Tranquill is unlikely to run again at the program’s Pro Day while Williams must in an effort to illustrate what he showcased last fall while wearing pads on football Saturdays—game-breaking speed.

Standout linebacker Te’von Coney will also be under the microscope after electing not to participate in Combine drills though he did go through position tests in Indianapolis.

Snubbed by the Combine selection process, a strong overall performance by Mustipher Wednesday is a must for the center who is viewed as a limited player in terms of size and length per most scouting services.

Notre Dame’s top combine performer was doubtless late-blooming senior Miles Boykin, highlighted by a stunning vertical leap of 43.5 inches (second highest among all participants) and a 4.42 time in the 40-yard dash. As a result, Boykin will likely choose to forgo most or all of the testing portion today while partaking instead in the position drills thereafter.

“Miles was jumping 40 inches in the vertical and pretty much putting up those numbers while he was here,” said Irish head coach Brian Kelly. “That’s a testament to their physical ability, their work ethic and certainly having a program and a strength and conditioning program, a nutrition program. All those things that good, established programs have.

“Now they have to go out and do position drill work,” he continued. “They have to go translate that. There’s a part B here. Part B is you have to move, you have to run through some drills now and they’ll (general managers/scouts) get their eyes on them from a different perspective.”

Wednesday’s schedule is as follows, beginning at 11 a.m.:

Station 1

40 Yard Dash

20/10 Yard Dash

Station 2

Pro Shuttle

L-Drill

Station 3

60 Yard Shuttle

12 p.m. Position Drills

OL

WR, TE, RB

LB

DB

DL

In addition to Boykin, Coney, Mustipher and Williams, expected to be in attendance tomorrow are Mustipher’s fellow 2018 team captains Alex Bars, Drue Tranquill and Tyler Newsome, defensive linemen Jonathan Bonner and Jerry Tillery, defensive backs Nick Coleman and Julian Love, tight ends Alize Mack and Nic Weishar and kicker Justin Yoon.

Likewise returning to campus for the event are 2016 Notre Dame graduate-transfers Justin Brent (safety) and Corey Holmes (wide receiver) as well as 2017 graduate-transfer Nick Watkins (cornerback).

More than 40 current players generally meander in and out of the festivities throughout the afternoon.

“I don’t know that we necessarily advertise the opportunity that this is the end result,” said Kelly of the players’ interest. “It’s certainly there if you want it. We tell them what the schedule is and they’re certainly open to going there. Our kids are pretty sharp. They want to follow our guys. They want to see them do well. I gave them the schedule in terms of when the testing is and all those things. I’m sure we’ll have quite a few guys that will be out there, because they want to pull for their teammates…What drives them more than anything else is it’s their buddies and they want to see them do well.”