Newsstand: Notre Dame football coaches check out 2026 QB Ryder Lyons
At 6:48 p.m. ET on Tuesday morning, five Notre Dame coaches took off on a private jet headed for California. One of their stops was Folsom (Calif.) High, where head coach Marcus Freeman, quarterbacks coach Gino Guidugli and wide receivers coach Mike Brown checked out 2026 quarterback target Ryder Lyons.
Lyons does not have a star rating yet, but the 6-2 1/2, 200-pound quarterback has offers from USC, Oregon, Utah, BYU, Colorado, Pittsburgh, Washington State, Washington, Virginia Tech, Arizona State and Arkansas in addition to Notre Dame.
With Deuce Knight committed in the 2025 class, 2026 is the next recruiting cycle in which the Irish must recruit a quarterback. They’re doing some heavy leg work on Lyons.
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It’s worth noting that the Irish have successfully recruited at Folsom before. They signed wide receiver Rico Flores Jr. out of Folsom in the 2023 class, although Flores transferred to UCLA after his freshman season.
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“I thought our point guard was getting bumped and ridden and rode. I can’t wait until the day that he’s a senior and he gets some of the calls that some of the seniors in the league get. But right now, he doesn’t. He’s in foul trouble a lot because people bump him and the foul is on him, but people bump him in the open court and he never gets a call. [Boston College was] were more physical, and they probably know that going in. ‘Young fella’s not gonna get a call, so be more physical with him and get him to turn it over.’ And that’s what he did, he turned it over.”
— Notre Dame head men’s basketball coach Micah Shrewsberry on the way freshman guard Markus Burton is officiated in the Atlantic Coast Conference
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