Notre Dame 2023 commit Adon Shuler calls Irish fans his ‘second family’
Notre Dame class of 2023 safety commit Adon Shuler was made for the moment. The four-star safety doesn’t shy away from it.
“I’m a spotlight type of person,” Shuler recently said on an Irish Players Club Twitter Spaces.
Playing at a place like Notre Dame lends itself to that sort of mentality. Primetime games broadcasted nationally on NBC. Coast-to-coast matchups against anybody and everybody, from USC to Clemson. And of course, all of those national championships. Eleven of them, the last of which came far too long ago for someone like Shuler’s liking.
“I think about it everyday,” Shuler said on the prospect of winning a national title. “I feel like the team now has a bullseye on its back.”
The type of guy Shuler is, he doesn’t mind the target. If anything, he welcomes it.
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He also welcomes the outpouring of support he’s gotten from Notre Dame fans since he committed to the program last August. The Irivington (N.J.) High School product has taken four trips to the campus in South Bend, and he’s left feeling the same way each time: Elated, longing to make it his permanent three-, four- or even five-year home.
Asked if he’s going to enroll early next January, he said “definitely.” Shuler feels like he already fits right in at Notre Dame, and the fans have played a large role in that comfort level.
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“I feel as though they’re going to be my second family outside of the football team,” Shuler said. “It’s really big to have another set of people who root for you. That’s really cool.”
Shuler said he has gotten closest with fellow 2023 commits Drayk Bowen of Merrillville (Ind.) Andrean and Peyton Bowen of Denton (Texas) Guyer. That seems to be a common theme among the 12 commits in the class, a group that makes up the No. 1 class in the country according to the On3 Consensus Football Team Recruiting Rankings.
Shuler is the No. 215 player in the class per the On3 Consensus. He’s the No. 19 safety in the country. And yet, he’s still only the ninth-highest rated recruit among the dozen in Notre Dame’s class. Numbers don’t mean anything once the players are on campus, though. Shuler considers himself a ballhawk. A true lockdown cover guy.
He feels love from the fans now, but he expects to really feel it when he’s doing his thing in blue and gold next year.
“I really love the fans,” he said. “Everything I post, they’re really on it. I love it.”
