Quick – do you remember Aaron Lynch’s career at Notre Dame? If you blinked you very possibly may have missed it because he transfered to South Florida after just one season where there were certainly flashes of brilliance for the former five-star recruit.
Lynch played in 12 games his one season at Notre Dame in 2011, recording a team-high 5.5 sacks and 14 quarterback hurries. It’s almost scary to think about what might have been had he been on the 2012 defensive line with as great as that group was.
The former top-ten national recruit went on to play at South Florida in 2013 after having to sit out 2012 due to transferring. He then declared for the 2014 NFL Draft where the San Francisco 49ers eventually took him with the 150th overall pick.
Fast-forward six years down the road and Aaron Lynch has signed a new deal with the Jacksonville Jaguars after spending the last two years with the Chicago Bears.
We have signed DE/OLB Aaron Lynch.
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— #DUUUVAL (@Jaguars) May 5, 2020
Terms of Lynch’s deal in Jacksonville were not yet announced. Lynch has recorded 20 sacks in his 73 game NFL career to date and for the second time in his football career now finds himself leaving the mid-west to play for a Florida based football team.