Notre Dame recruiting: The Irish make a slew of new offers

The Notre Dame recruiting efforts have been ratcheted up the past few days, with a number of new recruiting targets receiving offers recently.

The Notre Dame recruiting staff have been doing their part finding some prospects during this coronavirus shutdown. After Wednesday’s day of “defensive” offers, there was a ton of new offensive targets who received offers from the Irish over the past 24-hours.

With top offensive line target Landon Tengwall picking Penn State over Notre Dame Thursday afternoon, the staff didn’t waste any time trying to find potential replacement recruits for their offensive line, with a few of those new offers going out to some really solid OL prospects.

This is definitely something that was fully expected to happen after missing out on the Maryland native as the Notre Dame recruiting staff was forced to move on from Tengwall, which they are certainly doing.

Here are the newest offers:

•2021 J. Michael Sturdivant from Texas

*Sturdivant received an offer on Wednesday evening after the defensive back offers came flying out.

Position: wide receiver

Height: 6’2

Weight: 183 pounds

Rankings:

Composite four-star (.9340)

159th overall in the nation

27th ranked WR

27th overall in Texas

Sturdivant holds 30 offers from teams like Oklahoma, Stanford, Florida State and more.

•2021 Rayshaun Benny from Michigan

Position: offensive line

Height: 6’5

Weight: 275 pounds

Rankings:

Composite four-star (.9462)

126th overall in the nation

16th ranked OT

6th overall in Michigan

Benny holds 38 offers at the moment from the likes of Auburn, Georgia, Florida State and many more.

•2021 Jaden Alexis from Florida

Position: wide receiver

Height: 6’1

Weight: 175 pounds

Rankings:

Composite three-star (.8789)

405th overall in the Nation

65th ranked WR

65th overall in Florida

Alexis holds 32 offers from the likes of Alabama, Georgia, Miami and many more top programs.

•2021 Pat Coogan from Illinois

Position: offensive line

Height: 6’5

Weight: 275 pounds

Rankings:

Composite three-star (.8739)

445th overall in the nation

45th ranked OT

14th overall in Illinois

Coogan hold 24 offers from teams like Stanford, Duke, Michigan and several more top programs.

•2021 Christian Lewis from Alabama

Position: wide receiver

Height: 6’3

Weight: 185 pounds

Rankings:

Composite three-star (.8789)

410th overall in the nation

66th ranked WR

15th overall in Alabama

Lewis holds 30 offers from the likes of Tennessee, Oregon, UCLA, Texas A&M and many more.

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•2021 Matthew Wykoff from Texas

Position: offensive line

Height:6’5

Weight: 304 pounds

Rankings:

Composite three-star (.8839)

375th overall in the nation

33rd ranked OT

54th overall in Texas

Wykoff holds 32 offers at the moment from Penn State, Texas, Stanford and a ton more.

When examining these new offers it’s pretty telling the reasoning behind the Notre Dame recruiting team making offers to a number of new wide receiver and offensive line recruits. Losing a big commitment from wide receiver Deion Colzie earlier this week and also missing out on a huge target on the offensive line in Tengwall is absolutely the reason for a lot of these offers.

Expanding the board is something the staff should have done earlier but I do like several of these targets for Notre Dame and their chances of really making an impact and landing them.