Former Buckeye Quincy Porter arrives at Notre Dame ready to leverage his talent and brotherhood mentality to electrify the Irish offense.
The receiver position at Notre Dame has had it's fair share of ups and downs over the last several seasons. This year, they had a host of returning talent, both experienced and inexperienced, but the option to look to the portal was still open. At the start of the winter portal window, it was unlikely the Irish would have gotten one receiver from a school like Ohio State. When everything was said and done, two former Buckeyes elected to come to South Bend.
Joining rising redshirt sophomore Mylan Graham is rising redshirt freshman Quincy Porter who is looking to make an immediate impact with Notre Dame's receiving corps this season. The 6-4, 197-pound receiver knows that his work will be cut out for him, but found the right fit with the Fighting Irish.
"You can really feel the brotherhood," Porter explained. "You can really feel everybody is close. When you come to the locker room at any point in the day, there's always going to be people in there. I just think that's just a great sign that everybody's always in the building. There's always going to be somebody working."
Following the departure of Malachi Fields, the Irish were in need of another big-bodied boundary player. Porter looks to fill that void left by the eventual NFL Draft pick, but is also looking to contribute any way that he can.
"I think I'll most likely be a boundary receiver," Porter answered when asked where he feels like he fits best within the offense. "But they'll be moving me around. So, really, whatever they’ve got for me. But I'll most likely be a boundary receiver."
Porter got to learn for a year under one of the nation's best in Jeremiah Smith last season in Columbus. Ohio State has been known from producing top-level talent at the wide receiver position. The New Jersey native learned a lot during his year at Ohio State and looks to bring some of that to the table in South Bend.
"I would say just being able to take pieces of different players' games and being able to learn from everybody that was there," Porter stated when asked about what he got from his freshman year at Ohio State. "Jeremiah [Smith] had his skill set and other receivers have their own skill set. I would just take parts of their game and apply it to mine and become the best receiver I could be."
The Notre Dame receiving corps enters this offseason as a very underrated unit. Despite bring back players like Jaden Greathouse and Jordan Faison, the group will likely continue to be overlooked. But additions like Porter and Graham and the continued ascension from players like Cam Williams, Micah Gilbert and Elijah Burress will quickly put people on notice. The Irish will need Porter in some capacity this season; by all accounts, it sounds like he'll be ready when his number is called.
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