2026 OL Darius Gray Looking Forward To Notre Dame Visit
Darius Gray has a busy spring ahead of him.
In fact, it’s started already for the 2026 Virginia offensive lineman, who made a trip to Clemson last Saturday.
“It went great,” the 6-foot-4, 285-pounder said. “They talked a lot about academics, which was very important. The practice was great.”
The St. Christopher’s School standout will hit Penn State, Tennessee, Syracuse, Notre Dame, Virginia Tech, Michigan and South Carolina next.
“The most important thing is really starting to figure out what I want to do and where I may want to go to college in the next few years,” Gray told Irish Sports Daily. “I think that these eight schools are definitely places that I see myself participating.
“There are definitely other schools that I'm not visiting this spring that I see myself hopefully playing in their jerseys one day, but I just didn't have any room to put them in this spring.”
Gray has over a dozen offers already from schools like Alabama, Michigan, Penn State, Florida State, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas A&M, Virginia and Virginia Tech among others. He doesn’t have an offer from the Irish yet, but that could change by the time he arrives in South Bend.
He said “everything” about Notre Dame intrigues him.
“It reminds me a lot of the school I go to now,” he said. “It is a private school, it's not too big or anything like that. They're a very good football team as well.
“They have Coach Joe Rudolph, who's over there now. He was at VT when I was in eighth grade. Our bond has been there for almost two years now. I think he's one of the greatest guys I've ever met. I think that going to Notre Dame would be very important because again, like I said, it's a very familiar setting.”
There isn’t anything in particular he’s looking to learn when he gets to South Bend.
“This is my first time, so everything really,” he said. “There's nothing really specifically I'm looking for. I know they have great academics and I know they have a great football squad. Really, all I'm looking for is just the family connection that I could feel and feel like it's a brotherhood over there.”
Gray doesn’t have a firm timeline for his recruiting process.
“I definitely feel like it's in God's hands. I think when the time is ready, He would definitely make that time right. My personal goal is maybe December of senior year is when I would probably commit, and then summer heading into senior year is probably when I would drop the top whatever it may be. But if things change and that's perfectly fine with me, just whatever time fits best.”
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