{"id":399959,"date":"2025-11-23T21:50:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/399959\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T21:50:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:50:18","slug":"notre-dame-loses-kyngstonn-viliamu-asa-for-rest-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/399959\/","title":{"rendered":"Notre Dame loses Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asa for rest of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763934618_755_schlabach_mark.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/>\n<p>Mark SchlabachNov 23, 2025, 04:03 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Senior college football writer<\/li>\n<li>Author of seven books on college football<\/li>\n<li>Graduate of the University of Georgia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"ebc2999c-2ff4-8435-ca46-9641e9f9ea10\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/team\/_\/id\/87\/notre-dame-fighting-irish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Notre Dame<\/a> will be without key linebacker <a data-player-guid=\"77edde6e-3db0-3a11-b7b9-3608036ca850\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/player\/_\/id\/5079748\/kyngstonn-viliamu-asa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asa<\/a> for the remainder of the season after he suffered a left knee injury in Saturday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/recap\/_\/gameId\/401754604\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">70-7 win<\/a> against <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"8a53c7d6-5f95-d1c0-ed4e-374f53b04443\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/team\/_\/id\/183\/syracuse-orange\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Syracuse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Viliamu-Asa was hurt late in the first half against the Orange and didn&#8217;t return in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>The sophomore from Inland Empire, California, is second on the team with 7.5 tackles for loss to go with 48 total tackles, 3 sacks, 5 quarterback hurries and an interception in 11 games. The No. 5 outside linebacker prospect in the 2024 SC Next rankings, Viliamu-Asa started one game as a freshman in 2024 and two more this season.<\/p>\n<p>He had a career-high nine tackles and two tackles for loss in a 25-10 win at <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"4abb970f-c9e6-7576-3daa-703957b91293\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/team\/_\/id\/103\/boston-college-eagles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boston College<\/a> on Nov. 1.<\/p>\n<p>The Irish also announced that reserve cornerback <a data-player-guid=\"c7075836-56d7-3656-942d-dfcff665d194\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/player\/_\/id\/4686218\/chance-tucker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chance Tucker<\/a> will miss the rest of the season with a left tibia injury. He had played in four games this season.<\/p>\n<p>Notre Dame (9-2) closes the regular season at <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"f74a44c4-7492-7a6e-34fe-ab14da6d7f2a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/team\/_\/id\/24\/stanford-cardinal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stanford<\/a> on Saturday night (10:30 p.m. ET, ESPN).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark SchlabachNov 23, 2025, 04:03 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":399960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-399959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115601226708412263","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}