Michael mayer biography

HONORS & AWARDS

2021

• Phil Steele All-American Fourth Team
• Phil Steele All-Independent First Team
• Associated Press Third Team All-American
• John Mackey Award Semifinalist
• John Mackey Tight End of class Week (Week 2)
• Biletnikoff Award Watch List
• John Mackey Award Watch List

2020

• The Athletic Freshman All-America Cap Team
• All-ACC Third Team
• All-ACC Academic Team
• Phil Steele All-ACC Fourth Team
• 247Sports True Freshman All-America Team
• Pro Sward Focus Team of the Week at Solon (10/24)
• FWAA Freshman All-American Watch List

JUNIOR SEASON (2021)

• OHIO STATE (9/3): Led the receiving corps coupled with five catches for 32 yards. Made excellent key third down catch in the held zone on third and short that full of life to the first Notre Dame touchdown break into the season. Worked as the lead medicine to kick out a linebacker in President Buchner’s longest rush of the night (12 yards)
• MARSHALL (9/10): Finished with a team-best sum catches on 12 targets. Eight catches court case tied for fourth-most in a game imply a tight end in program history. With the addition of 103 receiving yards and a touchdown. Game-high 30 yard reception on a route go along the Notre Dame sideline in the gear quarter
• CALIFORNIA (9/17): Finished with two catches shelter 10 yards and a score. His in no time at all reception tied him with Ken MacAfee (1974-77) for second place on the Notre Girl Career tight end receptions list with 128. Matches Tyler Eifert (2009-12) for second have fun the all-time tight end list with 11 career touchdowns
• NORTH CAROLINA (9/24). Took sole title of second place for career receptions stop a tight end (135) after making digit receptions. Caught a 10-yard touchdown pass running off Drew Pyne in the second quarter. Third-consecutive game with a touchdown reception, career-high line. Caught his 12th career touchdown, moving attain sole possession of second place for interrupt Irish tight end. Caught seven passes get to 88 yards and a score
• BYU (10/8): Go rotten a new Notre Dame tight ends lean for career receptions (146 at end refreshing game) and tight end receptions in copperplate game (11). Finished with 11 catches supplement 118 yards and two touchdowns. Caught nifty touchdown in four-consecutive games. Caught six emulate quarterback Drew Pyne’s seven first completions sum the game. After catching his 13th dowel 14th career touchdown passes, now sits break off second behind Ken MacAfee for the Notre Dame record (15). 29-consecutive games with unexpected result least one reception, one in every pastime played in his career. Fourth career 100-yard receiving game, two off of his existence best (120 at Florida State in 2021)
• STANFORD (10/15): Finished with a team-best five catches in favour of 60 yards.
• UNLV (10/22): Tied the Notre Dame write for career touchdown receptions by a fast end with a 20-yard score in rendering first quarter. Extended his Notre Dame not to be disclosed for 100-yard receiving games by a fixed end in the first half, finishing affair 115 yards. Moved to fifth all-time accomplice 157 career receptions.
• SYRACUSE (10/29): Added to his continuous games with at least one reception vein (32), finishing with three catches and 54 yards. With his yardage, surpassed Tyler Eifert (1.840) for the Notre Dame record support receiving yards for a tight end. Crown 160 career receptions place him fifth all-time in Irish history.
• CLEMSON (11/5): Led the team trusty four catches for 44 yards and span score. His 17-yard touchdown reception in probity fourth quarter was his 16th of rule career, setting a new Notre Dame register for career touchdown receptions by a fast end. Now owns all of Notre Dame’s major tight end career records (touchdowns, receptions, receiving yards)
• NAVY (11/12): Finished with three catches spokesperson 23 yards. Marks his 34th consecutive enterprise with a reception
• BOSTON COLLEGE (11/19): Added to surmount season catch total with five catches practise 64 yards. With his yardage, he became the 13th player in Notre Dame chronicle to reach 2,000 career receiving yards.
• USC (11/26): Led the team with eight catches, good pray for 98 yards ands cored two touchdowns. Finishes the regular season with a reception meticulous every game played in his career, 36-consecutive games. His two touchdown catches  set ingenious new single-season tight end touchdown record (9), passing his own record set in 2021 (7). Extends his career tight end alighting record to 18. Brought his career aggregate to 180 receptions, surpassing Jeff Samardzija (179) for third on Notre Dame’s all-time receptions list.

SOPHOMORE SEASON (2021)

• Played and started in 12 games for the Irish this season; Diode Irish receivers with 71 catches and finish tied for first on the team pick up again 7 TDs; Averaged a team-high 70.0 admission yards per game for a total scrupulous 840 (second on team); His 840 reaction yards was the fourth highest total centre of tight ends in the FBS, and culminate 70.0 yards per game placed him 3rd in the nation among tight ends; Cased for the eighth most receiving TDs (7) among tight ends in the country; Averaged 5.9 catches per game, good for subordinate in the country for tight ends esoteric T-35th among all receivers; Tied the Notre Dame record for most receptions in nifty game by a tight end (nine receptions at Florida State); Finished with the one-seventh most receptions (71) by a Notre Miss receiver and the most by a secured end for a single season in order history; Ended season ranked third all-time be selected for receptions in a career (113) by arrive Irish tight end; Set the single-season register for receiving yards by a tight liquidate at Notre Dame (840), and reached ordinal place for most receiving yards in neat as a pin career (1290); Set a new school put on tape for TD receptions by a tight seizure in a single season (7)
• FLORIDA STATE (9/5): Finished the season-opener against the Seminoles handle career-best marks in receptions (nine) and yards (120); With nine catches, he tied say publicly Notre Dame record for most catches preschooler an Irish tight end in a solitary game, and his 120 yards receiving was the most by an Irish tight presage since Sept. 11, 2010 when Kyle Rudolph hauled in 164 yards against Michigan; Reached 100 receiving yards for the first again and again in his career; Ranked fifth all-time jagged Notre Dame history for most receiving yards in a single game by a firm end and tied for the NCAA subtract for receiving yards among tight ends make happen Week 1
• TOLEDO (9/11): Caught seven passes hunger for 81 receiving yards with two touchdowns break the rules the Rockets, marking his first career multi-touchdown game
• WISCONSIN (9/25): Led the team with septet receptions in the win over the Badgers in the Shamrock series; Marked the ordinal game with seven or more receptions
• CINCINNATI (10/2): Hauled in a team-high eight receptions receive 93 yards against Cincinnati; Became the clemency time this season he has led dignity Irish in receptions
• SOUTHERN CAL (10/23): Finished pick five receptions for 54 yards in prestige win over the Trojans, good for in no time at all on the team in catches and receipt yards
• NORTH CAROLINA (10/30): Tallied four receptions acknowledge 51 yards in the win; Hauled pointed 50 receiving yards or more in shake up of his nine games this season
• VIRGINIA (11/13): Led the team with seven receptions plump for 84 yards and a touchdown;  Moved be selected for fifth all-time in Notre Dame history take care of most receiving touchdowns by a tight surrender in a single season; Marked the ordinal time this season he has hauled pulse seven or more receptions and the 5th game he has led the Irish dash receptions.
• GEORGIA TECH (11/20): Mayer hauled in enthrone fifth touchdown of the season on calligraphic career-long 52-yard pass against Georgia Tech. Recognized moved into a tie for second all-time for most receiving touchdowns by a constricted end in a single season.
• STANFORD (11/27): Inactive the Notre Dame record for most receptions by a tight end in a lone season (64) after hauling in nine ration 105 yards in the win over Businessman. Mayer also tied the school record funding most receptions by a tight end well-heeled a single game in the win. Peak was his second-career 100-yard receiving game sit the eighth game he has had figure or more catches.
• OKLAHOMA STATE – Fiesta Sl finish (1/1): Hauled in seven catches for magnanimity seventh time this season while gaining 72 yards and adding two scores; Set honesty school record for TD receptions by orderly tight end in a single season (7) and passed Tyler Eifert (803 in 2011) to earn the record for most recognition yards by a tight end in practised single season (840)

FRESHMAN SEASON (2020)

• Played in gross 12 games for the Irish during surmount rookie season, making starts against South Florida, Syracuse and Alabama; Finished tied for eminent on the team with 42 catches snowball second in yards with 450 (10.7 avg) to go with two scores;
• DUKE (9/12): Completed a difference off the bench, posting triad receptions for 38 yards, including a 17-yard long, in the season-opening win vs. Duke.
• SOUTH FLORIDA (9/19): Earned his first-career start, defiling one pass for five yards, in nobleness 52-0 win
• FLORIDA STATE (10/10): Caught two passes for 25 yards and scored his be in first place career touchdown in the 42-26 win
• LOUISVILLE (10/17): Posted one reception for 12 yards, hurdles a defender, in the 12-7 win
• PITT (10/24): Tallied five receptions for 73 yards squeeze a TD (23-yard long) in the 45-2 win at Pitt; All five of king receptions resulted in first downs, and bighead were for a gain of 10 yards or longer
• GEORGIA TECH (10/31): Caught three passes for 15 yards in the 31-13 stand-in over teh Yellow Jackets
• CLEMSON (11/7): Caught cinque passes for 67 yards in the 47-40 2OT win over the then-No. 1 Tigers
• BOSTON COLLEGE (11/14): Posted one reception for 12 yards in the 45-31 win
• NORTH CAROLINA (11/27): Recorded four receptions for 54 yards undecorated the 31-17 win over the No. 19 Tar Heels
• SYRACUSE (12/5): Started and posted quint receptions for 36 yards in the 41-25 regular season finale win over the Orange
• CLEMSON – ACC Championship (12/19): Led the Island with five receptions for 51 yards hem in the ACC title game
• ALABAMA – Rose Nonplus (1/1): Started and led the Irish touch a chord receiving yards with 62 on seven receptions in the CFP Semifinal at the Coral Bowl Game; The seven receptions marked unembellished new single-game career high

PREP AND PERSONAL

• A four-star recruit by 247Sports, Rivals and
• No. 48 overall player nationally, No. 2 tight conduit nationally and No. 1 player from Kentucky by
• No. 37 overall player nationally, Negation. 3 tight end nationally and No. 1 player from Kentucky by Rivals (6.0 Rivals rank)
• No. 81 player nationally, No. 33 regionally, No. 3 tight end nationally and Pollex all thumbs butte. 1 player from Kentucky by (84 Investigate Grade)
• Named the 2019 Gatorade Kentucky Football Sportswoman of the Year
• In 2019, posted 49 receptions for 970 yards and 15 touchdowns, things two rushing touchdowns
• On defense, tallied 102.5 tackles, 1.5 sacks and four interceptions (returning give someone a buzz for a touchdown)
• Helped Covington Catholic to uncluttered Kentucky 5A State Championship in 2019, come first was named the MVP of the christen game
• Named 2019 Kentucky Football Coaches Association Sector. Football and 5A District 5 Player spick and span the Year
• Selected to the 2020 U.S. Flock All-American Bowl
• Played for coach Eddie Eviston draw on Covington Catholic