Coach| 2026 Notre Dame WR Target Gordon Sellars "Exceptional" On & Off Field
Notre Dame is making a late run at Gordon Sellars.
The 2026 North Carolina receiver is scheduled to announce his college decision this Friday, but after receiving an offer from the Irish last week, he’s going to make a visit to South Bend on Tuesday.
As of now, Sellars is expected to choose between Clemson, Georgia, Michigan and South Carolina on Friday, but Notre Dame is trying to give him something else to consider.
“He's got all the measurables, which makes it easy,” his coach at Charlotte’s Providence Day, Chad Grier tells Irish Sports Daily. “He's 6-3, 195. He can run, he can jump.
“He's an exceptional kid too. I think that's one thing I've been blessed with to be around a lot of great kids and families and he's no exception. Mom and Dad are awesome. He's been raised right. He loves ball. He loves working at it and he just keeps getting better and better.”
Grier saw Sellars make huge strides between his sophomore and junior seasons and sees him doing the same now.
“I think the jump he made last year and even in this offseason has really been route skills,” says Grier. “He's had the size and speed and athletic system to run past people; he can catch a short one and take it to the house kind of thing, but I think he's really taken a lot of pride in becoming a better route-runner. He changes speeds and angles and leverage and lowering his hips coming out of brakes. He's doing a really nice job of all that.”
Grier has been impressed with the way Sellars has handled the process.
“It's a little refreshing,” he says. “In today's age of a four-star guy, there's usually a lot of talk about money and seeing how much he can get. Gordon has really been about relationships and just trying to find the best set for him to go to school. That's really been his priority the whole time and he's done a nice job sticking to that process.
“There's really no reason for him to drag it out. He's going to end up not taking a lot of officials because he wants to be done with it now. Most kids are doing the opposite. They want to take all their officials, all they can get, get as much gear as they can get and all that. I think he's just a really cool kid who's wired a little different.”
Where does that leave the Irish? Grier is unsure.
“I don't know,” he says. “Hard to say. It's definitely late. I like (Marcus) Freeman a lot when he came out here two years ago, but I really thought the world on him and I think a lot of the program.”
Grier coached former Notre Dame quarterback Sam Hartman in high school.
“He loved his time there. I think it's great they offered. What a cool thing for him to be offered by Notre Dame.”
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