Jaden Greathouse

#1 · WR · Sr. · Notre Dame6′1″ · 212 lb · Austin, TX · Austin Westlake

Receiving yards289241st of 467 receiversLast gameW 35–13at Navy · Oct 31
Nextvs MiamiSat Nov 7 · 7:30 pm ET
289 receiving yards in 7 games; their best was 125 at BYU.
Game 1: against Wisconsin, win 41-13, 6 receiving yards6WWISGame 2: against Rice, win 52-0, 48 receiving yards48WRICEGame 3: against Michigan State, win 27-10, no catches in this gameWMSUGame 4: at Purdue, win 49-10, 36 receiving yards36WPUR@Game 5: at North Carolina, win 37-26, 18 receiving yards, 1 touchdown18WUNC@Game 6: against Stanford, win 58-7, 30 receiving yards, 1 touchdown30WSTANGame 7: at BYU, loss 24-28, 125 receiving yards125LBYU@Game 8: against Navy, win 35-13, 26 receiving yards26WNAVYSeason high,in a loss
Game 1: against Wisconsin, win 41-13, 6 receiving yardsWWISGame 2: against Rice, win 52-0, 48 receiving yardsWRICEGame 3: against Michigan State, win 27-10, no catches in this gameWMSUGame 4: at Purdue, win 49-10, 36 receiving yardsWPUR@Game 5: at North Carolina, win 37-26, 18 receiving yards, 1 touchdownWUNC@Game 6: against Stanford, win 58-7, 30 receiving yards, 1 touchdownWSTANGame 7: at BYU, loss 24-28, 125 receiving yards125LBYU@Game 8: against Navy, win 35-13, 26 receiving yards26WNAVYSeason high,in a loss
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Navy · W 35-13

3 catches, 26 yards

The other 6 games average 44 yards. This one was 18 below.

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Greathouse has catches in 7 of Notre Dame’s 8 games: none against Michigan State.

Dashed line: 100 yards.

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Has Notre Dame’s Jaden Greathouse Returned to Postseason Form?

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  1. Q1, 6:26 · Notre Dame breaks the tieC.J. Carr finds Jaden Greathouse for a 12-yard touchdownNotre Dame at North Carolina, week 5Q1, 6:26 · Notre Dame 14, North Carolina 7Notre Dame took the lead in the first quarterNotre Dame took the lead in the first quarterC.Carr pass complete short right to J.Greathouse caught at UNC00, for 12 yards to the UNC00 touchdown, 1ST DOWN, kick goodWatch from this playESPN College Football

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Greathouse's legend got written in the 2024 College Football Playoff. He went for 105 yards against Penn State in the semifinal, then dropped a career day in the title game against Ohio State — 128 yards and two touchdowns, the only Irish receiver to crack 100 yards in a single game all year, and he did it twice when it counted most. Then 2025 happened, or rather didn't: what he called the worst hamstring injury of his life held him to 4 catches for 73 yards across the whole campaign. The discourse this offseason is pure redemption — beat writers frame 2026 as the bounce-back year, and Greathouse himself has said this is finally when he shows the college football world what he can do.

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The catch is that he doesn't return to the same room. Malachi Fields (off to the Giants in the third round) and Will Pauling are gone, but the Irish reloaded through the portal with Ohio State transfers Quincy Porter and Mylan Graham, and Jordan Faison is back after leading the team in catches (49) and yards (640) in 2025. So Greathouse isn't walking into a vacancy — he's competing for targets from CJ Carr, a top-five returning QB and early Heisman name, in the deepest receiving corps Marcus Freeman has had. That's the perception-vs-reality tension: the name recognition is real, but the last full-season tape is two years old.

The forward stake the boards keep circling: a guy with 42 catches for 592 yards and four scores in 2024 and a national-title masterpiece on his reel should be a WR1 — but he has to stay on the field first. If the hamstring holds, Notre Dame gets a proven closer back. If it doesn't, the room is good enough to move on without him.

Update (Oct. 28, 2026): Notre Dame lost 28-24 at BYU on Oct. 17 as a 10.5-point favorite and is 6-1. Greathouse caught eight passes for 125 yards in the loss, his best game this season. He has 263 receiving yards this season.

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Style of play

Play style

A big, sturdy 6-foot-1, 220-pound boundary receiver who plays bigger than his vertical speed — a contested-catch, move-the-chains target rather than a burner. His best tape is physical: winning at the catch point, boxing out defenders, and coming up in the biggest moments (the fourth-down conversions and red-zone wins that defined his CFP run). The 2025 stat line is too thin to read — 4 catches, 73 yards, but an 18.3 yards-per-catch average on the few he got, hinting the explosive element is still there when healthy. No play-by-play percentiles are available for his injury-shortened 2025, so this is a scouting read: a possession-plus-flashes profile whose ceiling is the matchup nightmare he was against Ohio State, whose floor is a reliable third option who wins where it's physical.

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