Sophomore wide receiver Jaden Greathouse has earned selection to the 2024 Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Preseason Watch List. The award annually recognizes the outstanding Division I college football offensive player who played football at and graduated from a Texas high school and/or plays football at a Division I Texas four-year college or university.
Greathouse, a graduate of Westlake High School in Austin, Texas, made a significant mark in his true freshman season at Notre Dame, appearing in 12 games while making five starts. He finished the year with 18 receptions for 265 yards and scored a team-high five touchdown receptions. He also recorded a season-long 48-yard reception.
Greathouse was the first true freshman wideout in Irish history to catch two touchdown passes in his first-career game when he did so in the 2023 season opener vs. Navy. Greathouse also became the first Notre Dame wide receiver to catch two touchdown passes in a season debut since 1996. In that game, he finished with three catches for a team-best 68 yards and two touchdowns.
Limited by an injury in the middle of the season, he finished off the year with six catches for 99 yards and two touchdowns in his final three games. His five touchdown catches during a rookie campaign are the most for a Notre Dame true freshman since KJ Stepherson also had five in 2016 and dating back to 1996, rank only behind Michael Floyd’s seven in 2008 for an Irish freshman wide receiver.
Greathouse finished his high school career as the most prolific receiver in Westlake history with 232 receptions, 4,035 yards and 53 touchdowns. The 4,035 receiving yards rank as the 15th-most in Texas high school football history. He won three state titles at Westlake and was the 2021 State Championship Offensive MVP, when he posted 236 yards receiving to set the record for reception yards in the state championship game. He was the 2019 Texas District 25-6A Co-Offensive Newcomer of the Year as a freshman, leading Westlake to the Texas 6A D-II state championship