The Surprising Truth Behind Notre Dame’s Title Hopes: What No One Is Telling You
The program’s last 1,000-yard pass catcher in a season was Chase Claypool in 2019, but that undersells the program’s lack of top-end production at the position.
Tight end Michael “Baby Gronk” Mayer had back-to-back 800-yard seasons in 2021 and 2022, but other than him, no Notre Dame target has even reached 750 yards in a season since 2019.
That streak is going to end this year, thanks to one of these players:
- Malachi Fields, a transfer from Virginia who’s coming off back-to-back 800-yard campaigns in an otherwise pretty hopeless Hoos offense
- Jaden Greathouse, who was third on the Irish in targets (55) but led the way with 592 yards and posted a standout 67.3% burn rate
- Will Pauling, an all-Big Ten receiver at Wisconsin in 2023 who transferred to South Bend this year and was quickly named a team captain
It’s the best Notre Dame receiving group in at least a half-decade, probably longer.


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