NOTRE DAME -- Notre Dame captain Jack Kiser is about to join some rare company this weekend.

When Kiser takes the field against Navy, the 6th year graduate student will make his 61st appearance in a Notre Dame uniform, tying him for the most games ever played in program history.

The COVID year helped put Kiser in position to break that record, but so too, did his talent.

Kiser is currently 2nd on the team with 34 tackles. He was also top three on the team the past two years.

"He is a problem-solver when he's out there," Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman said earlier this week.

"The ability for him to communicate and get other people lined up, to communicate and tell somebody what's happening is tremendous."

"It is a level of comfort for a coach and for those young guys to have a guy like Jack in that room."

But that's not where Kiser's impact stops.

Today, he was named a finalist for the Campbell Trophy, which goes to the player in college football that best exhibits excellence on the field, in the classroom and community service.

According to the National Football Foundation, which presents the award, one of the pillars of the Campbell Trophy is exemplary service.

Kiser certainly isn't lacking that either.

Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman says his charge to Kiser over the final weeks of this season is to pass along as much knowledge as he can to the young guys coming up behind him.

"I keep reminding him, he's gone in a couple games," Freeman says.

"Now, you gotta challenge that room to step up. You can't always make all the calls and the checks. Your job is to leave that room better than you found it, and you gotta make sure some of those young guys are seeing it the way you see it, can make those checks and are not always dependent on you to do it."