If you follow Notre Dame Football, which you clearly do, then you know what linebacker Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah did last year. However, many fans don’t pay much attention to what other teams are doing, aside from their rivals, so there is a possibility his great season went unnoticed by many people. Those people were not NFL scouts as yesterday 247Sports named Owusu-Koramoah as the next Patrick Queen.
Don’t know who Queen is? Well, all he did was lead the LSU defense to a National Title after having a so-so start to his career. Queen doubled his career tackles total, picked up his first interception, and added 3 sacks to the one he had in his previous two seasons with the Tigers.
Owusu-Koramoah’s breakout was last year, after taking the quarterback down 8.5 times while totaling 79 tackles. The rising redshirt junior’s stats are much more impressive than Queen’s, but this is more about being a nationally known player, as “perhaps he (Owusu-Koramoah) has a little bit more name appeal nationally than Queen’s 2018 profile. But after the 2020 season, expect Owusu-Koramoah to be a household name.”
Trying to study four Notre Dame draft prospect for this years class but LB 6 Owusu-Koramoah keeps distracting me! This dude is all over the field on three tapes studied so far. #nfldraft2021 pic.twitter.com/Jf3z58zHv5
— Todd McShay (@McShay13) March 10, 2020
The hype train should be building for the Irish star defender after what he did last year. If Owusu-Koramoah is about to at least replicate his stats from last year, he will surely be a household name. If he can exceed those impressive numbers from his redshirt sophomore campaign, Owusu-Koramoah should be hearing his name being called in the first round of the NFL Draft.