Notre Dame’s history as Tight End U doesn’t slow down, it just tends to reload and produce at very high levels year after year. New head coach, new coordinators, quarterbacks and systems? Doesn’t matter, even in some dark years tight ends still produce at Notre Dame and go on to the NFL with regularity.
Now Notre Dame is in the running for one of the best tight ends in the 2021 recruiting class as Brock Bowers, a four-star tight end announced his “top eight” on Sunday with Notre Dame making the cut.
Top 8‼️
Edit: @Hayesfawcett3 pic.twitter.com/E4sZhCZprX— Brock Bowers (@brockbowers17) April 5, 2020
The Napa, California has an interesting top eight with a five schools; Cal, Oregon, Oregon State, UCLA and Washington, being on the west coast and Georgia, Notre Dame and Penn State pulling off the national pitch.
Bowers is graded as the third best tight end in the 2021 class per 247Sports and measures out at 6-3, 225 pounds. Bowers is coming off a remarkable junior season as he pulled down 39 receptions for 1098 yards and 14 touchdowns while also rushing the ball 22 times for 316 yards and three scores.
Notre Dame has been loading up at the position in recent years, having both Michael Mayer (five-star) and Kevin Bauman (four-star) join their 2020 class. The Fighting Irish do already have one tight end commit for the ’21 class in Cane Berrong of Hart County in Georgia, a 6-4, 230 pound prospect per 247.