Notre Dame football: Fans need to get excited about Lorenzo Styles Jr.
By Brad Weiss
After winning ten or more games for the fourth straight season, the Notre Dame football team goes into the 2021 campaign with a lot of question marks. On both sides of the ball, the Irish are losing a bunch of talent, including first-round picks, All-Americans, and multi-year starters.
On offense, the Notre Dame football program will have to replace Ian Book, who won more games than any other quarterback in the history of Notre Dame football. They also must replace Book’s top two options at wide receiver from last season, Javon McKinley and Ben Skowronek, so there will be some new faces atop the depth chart in 2021.
Kevin Austin, Brenden Lenzy, and Avery Davis all return this season, and all three are going to get a chance to start for the Irish. However, the 2021 recruiting class was loaded with wide receiver talent, led by Lorenzo Styles Jr., who could be the best wide receiver this program has seen in a long time.
Notre Dame football got a potential star in Lorenzo Styles Jr.
Ranked as the No. 20 wide receiver in the country, the four-star recruit lands in South Bend after a stellar high school career at Pickerington Central (OH) High School. An incredible wide receiver, cornerback, and return man, Styles actually hauled in the game-winning touchdown in the state championship game two years ago and got his team back to the finals last season.
The son of a former Super Bowl winner, Styles is not only an explosive athlete, but he has tremendous hands, gets good separation, and can also do a number on defenses after the catch. He is getting to Notre Dame at a great time for wide receivers, as the depth chart is wide open, and he has enough talent right now to get a long look this Spring and Summer.
Styles enrolled early for this Notre Dame football team and will be joined in this class by Deion Colzie and Jayden Thomas, four-star recruits in their own right, making the future is bright at wideout in South Bend.
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Styles will don the No. 21 for the Irish this season, and before all is said and done, could be the WR1 on this team as a true freshman. Sure, it is a rare thing for true freshman wideout to get a ton of playing time under Brian Kelly, but Styles is special and should get a chance to show what he is made of early on.