4-star Mississippi QB Deuce Knight has been having fun with each a part of the low season.
Knight, the No. 3-ranked QB within the Rivals250 out of Lucedale (Miss.) George County Excessive, is the top-ranked participant from the Sip within the 2025 cycle. He is been dedicated to Notre Dame for the reason that begin of his junior marketing campaign and is gearing up for his eleventh journey as much as South Bend this weekend for an official go to (June 14-16).
Knight was on campus only a week in the past within the assembly rooms with first-year OC Mike Denbrock and PG coordinator Gino Guidugli prepping for Elite 11.
“I’ve had an awesome relationship with Coach Denbrock earlier than he got here to Notre Dame, so it is like household up there each time I’m going up there,” Knight advised Rivals.
“They present loopy like to me and my household, and on the cellphone with them, you may inform they they care about me and my household. I am very snug with them,” he added. “Going up there and going over movie and sitting in on conferences, it is nice.”
Two applications resolute on altering Knight’s thoughts embrace in-state Ole Miss and Colorado.
Knight has not shut down his recruitment and has maintained communication with each faculties, although no visits are set to both college.
“Ole Miss and Colorado are nonetheless on me, and it has been cool,” he stated. “These two staffs … I really feel actually snug with each of them and principally, they’re all nice folks.”
Knight’s low season has included robust performances on the OT7 Finals and an upcoming look on the Elite 11 Finals in Los Angeles. It additionally included time spent round former NFL nice and future Corridor of Famer Philip Rivers, now a coach within the state of Alabama, who labored out and hung out contained in the movie room with Knight and present Irish QB Riley Leonard this summer time.
Rivers imparted loads of knowledge on each the present and future Notre Dame quarterbacks.
“It was nice to get to work with Coach Philip. He is gonna be a Corridor of Famer and to be coached up by him is a blessing, and it is one thing I can take residence,” Knight detailed.
“He advised me to remain the course. At this age, there are plenty of distractions and out of doors issues, however I’ve all of the expertise on the planet and if I keep targeted and take teaching, then I am going to go far. Getting on the market on the sphere with him and being within the movie room, listening to the methods that he used on the right way to watch movie, the right way to choose aside defenses within the league was mind-blowing. It is loopy … it is the NFL, it is the perfect of the perfect, however he advised me to not overcomplicate it.”
