Shifty 2025 WR Shaun Terry commits to Notre Dame football
One Notre Dame visit is all it took for 2025 wide receiver Shaun Terry to shut down his college football recruitment. On Sunday, four weeks after his first trip to South Bend, the Ironton (Ohio) High junior pledged to the Fighting Irish.
“The faith they have in me is what really stood out to me,” Terry told On3’s Hayes Fawcett of his decision to verbally commit to Notre Dame. “And the love the coaching staff shows. I’ve had a great relationship with (wide receivers) Coach (Mike) Brown for about a year now and I put all my faith with me into him.”
The 5-foot-10, 165-pound Terry chose the Irish over 20 “Core Four” (ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, SEC) offers. Terry held offers from Michigan, Oklahoma, Oregon, Penn State, Southern California and Wisconsin.
The On3 Industry Ranking — a proprietary algorithm that compiles ratings and rankings from those services — currently considers him the No. 532 overall player, No. 86 wide receiver and No. 17 prospect in Ohio. In On3’s own rankings, Terry is the No. 79 wide receiver in the class.
Brown offered Terry on Sept. 28 when he was an assistant with the Badgers. He was one of the first Core Four coaches to give the three-star pass catcher a scholarship, which mattered to Terry.
“It’s definitely important,” Terry told Blue & Gold on Jan. 28. “He was one of the first ones that believed in me. That means a lot to me.”
Brown ended up offering the On3 Industry Ranking’s No. 2 wide receiver in Ohio a Notre Dame scholarship on Jan. 20, the day Terry visited campus for the first time. He was one of 12 Irish recruiting targets in town that day.
So far, the Irish have secured commitments from two recruits who made the trip to South Bend on Jan. 20. Four-star offensive tackle Owen Strebig pledged to the Irish on Feb. 8. Three-star wide receiver Elijah Burress committed two days later on Feb. 10.
Shaun Terry’s Notre Dame commitment furthers the program’s lead for the most pledges in the 2025 cycle
Notre Dame’s 2025 class is up to 16 commits, five more than the closest school (Clemson). They could add a 17th on Tuesday when coveted three-star offensive tackle Matty Augustine reveals his decision. The 6-foot-7, 255-pounder from Greenwich (Conn.) Brunswick School, Augustine, also visited Notre Dame for its Jan. 20 junior day.
The Irish have already secured commitments from the No. 12 and 23 offensive tackles in the class in Waukesha (Wis.) Catholic Memorial’s Strebig and Wallingford (Conn.) Choate Rosemary Hall’s Will Black. Augustine is the No. 25 offensive tackle in 2025.
With Burress and Terry’s commitments, the Irish now have two wide receivers for prized 2025 quarterback pledge Deuce Knight, the No. 5 passer in the class. Wayne (N.J.) DePaul Catholic’s Burress is the No. 504 overall player, No. 78 wide receiver and No. 15 prospect in New Jersey in 2025.
When Terry signs with the Irish next December, he will be the first wide receiver the program has added from Ohio since Lorenzo Styles Jr. in the 2021 class. In 2024, Notre Dame inked three prospects from the Buckeye State: safety Taebron Bennie-Powell, cornerback Karson Hobbs and EDGE Loghan Thomas.
