If anyone wants to feel old to start the week, look no further to a huge college football announcement on Monday.
Kennedy Urlacher, the son of Pro Football Hall of Famer Brian Urlacher, announced that he would be committing to the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. The younger Urlacher is a rising senior at Chandler (Arizona) High School and rates as the No. 57 safety and the No. 608 overall recruit in the 2024 class, according to the 247Sports Composite rankings.
COMMITTED🍀🍀 #GoIrish @Hayesfawcett3 pic.twitter.com/XtLQhiRkRH
— Kennedy Urlacher (@k_urlacher11) May 1, 2023
Kennedy chose Notre Dame over an impressive list of offers that includes schools like Arizona, Arizona State, Cal, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kansas State, Miami, Nebraska, New Mexico (his father’s alma mater), Penn State, Stanford, TCU, Washington and Wisconsin.
His father wanted to attend Texas Tech but received just one scholarship offer — from New Mexico. Like his father before him, Kennedy did not receive an athletic scholarship from the Red Raiders, but it seemed to turn out just fine for the elder Urlacher.
“My dad has always told me that education should be the biggest thing for me,” the younger Urlacher told Irish Sports Daily. “Playing big-time football was going to happen with most of my offers, but not everywhere allowed me to play big-time football and get a great education. It was really a no-brainer.”
Brian Urlacher was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2018. He put together quite the resume through his 13-year career in the league, as the Chicago Bears legend was a four-time First-Team All-Pro, eight-time Pro Bowler and the league Defensive Player of the Year in 2005.
Kennedy will now look to follow in his father’s footsteps.
