Early-enrollee wide receiver Greathouse shines

By J.J. POST

Associate

sports editor

heading into the 2023 blue and Gold game, notre dame needed a breakout at the wide receiver position.

simply put, the Irish have a numbers problem at wide receiver. Graduate transfer Kaleb smith, generally assumed to be an addition that would add a consistent veteran hand to the room, medically retired a week prior. Lorenzo styles, a breakout star from 2021 who many hoped would rediscover his form in the offseason, converted to cornerback and entered the transfer portal the day before the game.

All told, notre dame entered saturday with just two players on the roster with over 10 receptions in 2022. They needed someone, either one of the team’s three early enrollee wide receivers or newly-converted slot option chris Tyree, to show out.

Freshman Jaden Greathouse did just that.

It was difficult to find a period of saturday’s blue and Gold game where Greathouse was not making plays. he had a catch on nine of Team Gold’s 10 drives. Playing the entire game, even as the rest of his squad rotated, Greathouse looked comfortable whether it was graduate transfer sam hartman throwing him the ball or freshman third-string steve Angeli.

After the game, Greathouse credited his connection with both quarterbacks to his relationship with them off the field.

“sam and steve did a great job,” Greathouse said. “It was amazing to be out there with those kinds of guys. I have a good relationship with them. everything is super fun and light in the locker room, so it definitely translates to the football field with the chemistry.”

Greathouse’s breakout outing isn’t much of a surprise to those who have followed his game in high school. cutting the precise profile of a player who could contribute early on, 2023 wouldn’t be the first time in the Austin, Texas native’s