Northwestern offers local QB and Notre Dame PWO Jack Lausch

Northwestern extended an offer Sunday to Oak Lawn (Ill.) Brother Rice quarterback Jack Lausch.

Lausch is a preferred walk-on candidate at Notre Dame, where he also has a scholarship to play baseball for the school.

He told the Chicago Sun-Times earlier this week he is excited for his opportunity at Notre Dame but is still open to other opportunities.

“If there is a school that comes and says, ‘We need a quarterback,’ and it is a high academic school with a great program, he’s going to consider that,” Chicago Brother Rice coach Brian Badke told the Chicago Sun-Times. “Obviously, Notre Dame is Notre Dame. But if someone says we have a football scholarship, he’s going to listen. It has to be the right fit, though.”

Lausch is No. 2 in the Chicago Brother Rice class academically. John Lausch, Jack Lausch’s father, played football at Harvard.

He finished his senior season with 2,447 passing yards, 20 passing touchdowns, 1,084 rushing yards and 21 rushing touchdowns.

His performance earned him the 2021 Chicago Sun-Times High School Football Player of the Year award.

Northwestern has the No. 44 recruiting class in the On3 Consensus Team Recruiting Ranking, led by Naperville (Ill.) Naperville Central four-star wide receiver Reggie Fleurima and Towson (Md.) Loyola Blakefield four-star EDGE Anto Saka.

The class had a quarterback recruit, but does not anymore.

Birmingham (Ala.) Hoover three-star quarterback Bennett Meredith decommitted Saturday from the Wildcats. He was committed to the school for about a month.

Arizona State has emerged as the new favorite for Meredeith, who told On3’s Chad Simmons that the Sun Devils coaching staff has done a great job building a relationship with him and his family.

“They have been recruiting me and talking to me since they offered,” Meredith told On3. “I took an official visit out there last weekend and I like how they’ve gone about recruiting me.