Coach | 2026 Notre Dame WR Target Kohen Brown One Of The Best

Darius Terrell obviously has not studied every high school wide receiver in America closely, but the Waxahachie (Texas) High School wide receiver coach is convinced his wideout, Kohen Brown‍, would compare favorably to just about anybody.

“To be 16 years old and measure at 6-foot and 192 pounds at the Rivals Camp,” Terrell stars. “He just bench-pressed 285. He just squatted over 500 pounds and he just power-cleaned 290 pounds. Again, this is at 16 years old.”

Brown has also run a 10.6 in the 100-meter dash and, according to Terrell, still has the desire to improve.

“He's been a kid who has a work ethic that is fantastic,” says Terrell. “When you start to see what he did his junior season, having over 1,100 yards playing in what is one of the toughest areas as far as D-I talent in America. He's the real deal and people are just now realizing that.”

Still, Brown has long been underranked by recruiting services, possibly because he’s at one of the smaller 6A schools in the state.

“But they're starting to wake up now,” Terrell says. “We think he's the best receiver in the state of Texas this cycle. I think that will prove to be true.”

It will be if Brown has anything to say about it.

“Kohen is extremely competitive,” says Terrell. “He's gotten better recently as far as just expressing, controlling those emotions. But at the same time, you'd always rather have to tell a kid, 'Whoa,' in comparison to having to tell a kid, 'Giddy up.' 

“He's one of those kids we have to kick out of the weight room. We have to tell him to go home otherwise he wouldn't stop. He's got a goal and he's been doing everything to try to reach it. I don't think that's going to change once he gets to college.”

Brown made an early commitment to USC, but has since backed off that commitment so he could take visits elsewhere.

“They still wanted to go evaluate other options,” Terrell says. “From their point of view, it just wasn't communicated that he couldn't take visits. 

“He knows he wants to visit Notre Dame. He knew he wanted to set that up.”

Irish receivers coach Mike Brown made the trip down to see Brown and offer a scholarship earlier this month.

“As soon as Coach Brown came down a couple weeks ago and made everything official, met face to face, he knew he wanted to take that visit, so he went ahead and let (USC receivers coach Chad) Savage know that he was going to take that visit, so he might as well go ahead and open it up,” Terrell explains

“He handled it the right way, but I think (the Trojans) are trying to take a stance now where once you're gone, that's it.”

That’s ok with Brown, who also has serious interest from Texas, Ole Miss and Utah among others. He’ll take an official visit to Utah this weekend, followed by officials to Texas (June 6th), Notre Dame (June 13th) and Ole Miss (June 20th).

As Terrell says, Notre Dame quickly jumped out as a school of interest for Brown.

“Just the prestige of the place,” the coach says. “Folks can't just transfer into Notre Dame. Having the representation with Marcus Freeman as the head coach, there's just a lot of positives surrounding the program right now. 

“A kid like him who's driven, who's focused, it's just a really good fit.”

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