Top 2019 CB Wesley Walker Excited For Notre Dame Return

When Wesley Walker‍ visited Notre Dame last summer, Todd Lyght gave the elite 2019 Tennessee cornerback a new way to look at the recruiting process.

The Irish defensive backs coach made it to the highest levels of the sport as a player himself, but Lyght stressed the importance of life after football during Walker’s visit and the message hit home.

Ever since, the 6-foot, 190-pounder from Nashville has had Notre Dame as one of his top contenders and has looked forward to returning to South Bend. That return will come in a couple weeks when Walker makes the trip back up for Notre Dame’s Junior Day on Jan. 27th.

“On Twitter, Coach (Brian) Kelly invited me and said he wanted me to come up there,” Walker explained. “I talked to my mom and she said she’d like to go up there too, so we’re going up for the Junior Day.”

The Ensworth School star is excited for the return.

“I just want to see more about it,” he said. “I didn’t get to see everything when I was up there. I saw a lot, but there’s more that I could see. I didn’t get to speak with all of the coaches. I just talked with Coach Lyght and Coach (Clark) Lea and Coach (Mike) Elko, but he’s at A&M now.”

Walker was glad to see Lea get promoted to defensive coordinator in Elko’s absence.

“That is real cool because he’s the one who offered me,” Walker said of Lea. “We’ve already been building a relationship and were already tight like that.”

The two have another connection as well as Lea’s sister was actually Walker’s Spanish teacher, which Walker found out while Lea was still an assistant at Wake Forest.

“He’s real cool,” said Walker.

Walker is also looking forward to showing his mother what he saw in South Bend last time.

“I just told her how I liked it and how it’s different,” he said. “I feel like she’ll like the campus because she likes old settings and stuff like that and that’s kind of how Notre Dame is. I feel like she’ll like it.”

Walker also has offers from schools like LSU, Tennessee, South Carolina, Ole Miss, Mississippi State and Vanderbilt among others. He’ll hit the road more in the weeks to come, but doesn’t have anything else locked in.

“I’m going to go on visits, but I don’t have a schedule of where I’m going to go,” he said.

“I’m going to go to Tennessee, Kentucky, Auburn, Vanderbilt. I’m going to go to a lot of places.”

He isn’t sure if he’ll take official visits in the spring or not, but knows at least some will come in the fall.

“I might take one or two,” he said of the spring. “I want to take some of my officials during the season so I can go to the games.”

Walker doesn’t have a timeline for a decision.