Lake Stevens (Wash.) High class of 2023 running back Jayden Limar received a couple of scholarship offers last fall as a sophomore, but his recruitment didn’t take off until this past spring. The in-state Washington Huskies offered April 7. After adding a few more this summer, he is around a dozen offers.
“It’s definitely been surreal,” the four-star prospect told BlueandGold.com. “It’s something you hope for as a kid and picture happening to you, but it’s hard to get a grasp on it when it starts happening. It’s crazy. Each offer I get is another team believing in me, which I find pretty cool.
“You have to make sure to remain level-headed on everything. At the end of the day, you can only choose one school. It doesn’t matter if you get every offer in the country; you can only go to one of those. It’s all about finding the one for you.”
Notre Dame is one of Limar’s most recent offers, with the Fighting Irish extending a scholarship Aug. 5 to the nation’s No. 10 running back and No. 221 overall player per Rivals.
“That was somewhat of a surprise,” Limar said of the Irish offer. “I had been talking to Coach Dre Brown for a week before they offered. Then I talked to Coach Lance Taylor; he was the one who offered me. They had seen my film and were looking my grades for a while. I didn’t know that they had done all of their homework on me.
“It’s a pretty big offer for me. That’s my first offer from an independent college. I like getting offers from all sorts of different schools. I find that pretty cool.”
Limar already has a good impression of Taylor from their early conversations.
“You can tell he’s a straightforward dude who cares a lot about his players’ development in football and life,” Limar added. “He’s a really good coach.”
Limar doesn’t know a lot about Notre Dame yet, but he’s planning to visit South Bend when the Irish host USC in October.
“I know a little bit about Notre Dame, but not as much as I’d like to,” he explained. “I’m going there in October for the USC game. Hopefully, I get a good grasp of everything while I’m there.”
Limar is a member of Ford Sports Performance, a training group based in Washington. Irish class of 2022 wide receiver commit Tobias Merriweather has also trained there, and another Notre Dame receiver pledge, CJ Williams, has played seven-on-seven with those two in the offseason.
“Those are my guys,” Limar said. “I’d see Tobias all of the time and chop it up with him. I’ve talked to CJ a good bit, too. Those are my guys right there.”
Arizona, Colorado, Michigan, Notre Dame, Oregon, Oregon State, Texas A&M, USC, Utah, Washington and Washington State are the schools that have offered Limar thus far.
“I start on defense and offense. I’m a kick returner. As far as me at running back, I can get downhill and also run routes split out,” he said. “I can do everything on offense. Defensively, the position I play is like a linebacker/defensive back.
“I guard people but I’m also in the box sometimes. They use me however it fits the game plan.”
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