2025 LB Grant Beerman Has Another "Great" Notre Dame Experience

Grant Beerman‍ has dozens of offers already, but it’s clear the 2025 Ohio linebacker wants to add at least one more, which is one reason why he was back in South Bend on Thursday for the opening of Notre Dame’s spring practice.

“It was a great experience,” said Beerman, who visited South Bend previously for a camp and a game. 

The 6-foot-4, 220-pounder made the trip with his Lakota West teammate, 2026 athlete Cam Thomas, and they were able to catch up with a former Lakota West player and current Irish safety, Ben Minich.

“It was sweet being able to watch Ben Minich,” Beerman said. “Lots of West students at Notre Dame, lots of familiar faces, so it was a really good experience.”

Beerman and Thomas were two of a handful of visitors the Irish hosted on Thursday.

“It felt very personalized with only maybe five recruits there, five to six recruits,” said Beerman. “It was an awesome experience being able to talk more ball with Coach (Max) Bullough and just watching practice.”

Beerman was impressed with the Irish’s practice session.

“I liked it,” he said. “I thought it was intense. I thought there was an intensity for the first spring practice. I feel like a lot of teams are unorganized and seem to find struggles early.”

He had the chance to meet with Bullough afterward.

“Just watching film, so being able to hear him sit in an actual meeting with two of the linebackers and watch film and see how he teaches detail and preaches what he's coaching,” Beerman recalled. “It was just more personalized. It was good to hear what he actually coaches and what he wants his linebackers to do.”

He was also able to tour campus.

“I was able to see the dorms, the basketball stadium and get on the football field, which is really awesome,” said Beerman. “That was a great experience.”

Beerman’s offer sheet includes schools like Cincinnati, Michigan State, Boston College, Kentucky, Duke, Minnesota, Pitt, Purdue, Virginia, Wake Forest and West Virginia among several others. 

He should be back in a few months looking to add another.

“The plan is they want me to follow in the footsteps of my former teammates Ben and Taebron (Bennie-Powell). What they did is they went to the Irish Invasion camp - or another camp - and that's where they earned their scholarship. I think that's a great possibility that I end up going there. That's where I'm set up right now. The plan and the timeline is for me to go to one of those camps.”

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