Newsstand: Top-25 2024 quarterback CJ Carr commits to Notre Dame

by: Ashton Pollard06/10/22ashtonpollard7

On3 image — 2024 quarterback CJ Carr during a Notre Dame visit in October of 2021. (Chad Weaver/Blue & Gold)

In case you missed it, Notre Dame picked up another commitment on Thursday night. And it wasn’t just anyone. Four-star 2024 Saline (Mich.) High quarterback CJ Carr made a verbal pledge to play football for the Irish over Georgia, LSU, Michigan, Michigan State and Wisconsin.

Carr is the grandson of legendary Michigan coach Lloyd Carr, who guided the program from 1995-2007, compiled a 122-40 record, and won the 1997 national championship. Carr’s maternal grandfather is Tom Curtis, a former All-American and College Football Hall of Fame Michigan safety. Jason Carr, Lloyd’s son and CJ’s father, was a quarterback at Michigan in the 1990s. His mother, Tammi, also graduated from Michigan.

Per the On3 Consensus, a complete and equally weighted industry-generated average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies, Carr is a four-star talent, the No. 1 prospect in Michigan, and the No. 5 quarterback and No. 23 overall player in the country in his class. On3’s own rankings are quite similar; Carr is listed as the top player in his home state, and the No. 4 quarterback and No. 31 overall recruit nationally.

He joins defensive linemen Owen Wafle of Princeton (N.J.) Hun School and Brandon Davis-Swain of West Bloomfield (Mich.) High on the Irish’s early 2024 commitment list.

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For more on the commitment, click here.

For more on why Carr picked the Irish, click here.

For what this means for Notre Dame’s future, playoff aspirations, click here.

Tweets of the day

CJ Carr and his grandfather. pic.twitter.com/p8N2kOw0GE
— Pete Sampson (@PeteSampson_) June 9, 2022

Carr stands with his paternal grandfather, Lloyd.

"I have a really close friend Arike Ogunbowale who is in the @WNBA and just the impact she has not only girls and younger women… she makes an impact everywhere."

Jordan Poole on his appreciation for @Arike_O, being able to follow her lead, and the importance of Women in Sports pic.twitter.com/LQ70cEIBaP
— NBA (@NBA) June 9, 2022

Arike Ogunbowale played basketball for the Irish from 2015-19 and is now a star in the WNBA for the Dallas Wings. She has been outspoken about women’s sports and other social causes.

He’s still got it!

Congrats to @JLaurinaitis55 on being named to this year’s @cfbhall Ballot! pic.twitter.com/ANYymISw5L
— Marcus Freeman (@Marcus_Freeman1) June 9, 2022

Graduate assistant and former Ohio State and NFL linebacker James Laurinaitis was named to this year’s College Football Hall of Fame ballot, and it’s clear he’s changed very little since retiring from the sport. Two former Notre Dame players, Michael Stonebreaker and Todd Lyght, are also on the ballot.

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Quote of the day

“I think he’s going to be the next guy in line that ends up having an incredible career there and moves on to be a first-round pick in the NFL out of Notre Dame. He’s that good. He’s that polished at the high school level right now.”

— Former Notre Dame quarterback Brady Quinn on Carr in a CBS Sports HQ interview