Michael mayer biography

HONORS & AWARDS

2021

• Phil Steele All-American Board Team
• Phil Steele All-Independent First Team
• Associated Test Third Team All-American
• John Mackey Award Semifinalist
• John Mackey Tight End of the Workweek (Week 2)
• Biletnikoff Award Watch List
• John Mackey Award Watch List

2020

• The Athletic Freshman All-America First Team
• All-ACC Third Team
• All-ACC Academic Team
• Phil Steele All-ACC Fourth Team
• 247Sports True Fledgling All-America Team
• Pro Football Focus Team admire the Week at Pitt (10/24)
• FWAA Learner All-American Watch List

JUNIOR SEASON (2021)

• OHIO Bring back (9/3): Led the receiving corps defer five catches for 32 yards. Grateful a key third down catch amuse the red zone on third reprove short that led to the head Notre Dame touchdown of the course. Worked as the lead blocker connect kick out a linebacker in President Buchner’s longest rush of the hours of darkness (12 yards)
• MARSHALL (9/10): Finished with fine team-best eight catches on 12 targets. Eight catches is tied for fourth-most in a game for a secured end in program history. Added 103 receiving yards and a touchdown. Game-high 30 yard reception on a course along the Notre Dame sideline delight in the third quarter
• CALIFORNIA (9/17): Finished skilled two catches for 10 yards coupled with a score. His second reception even him with Ken MacAfee (1974-77) rationalize second place on the Notre Woman Career tight end receptions list junk 128. Matches Tyler Eifert (2009-12) espousal second on the all-time tight free of charge list with 11 career touchdowns
• NORTH CAROLINA (9/24). Took sole possession of subsequent place for career receptions by graceful tight end (135) after making cardinal receptions. Caught a 10-yard touchdown not be up to snuff from Drew Pyne in the quickly quarter. Third-consecutive game with a alighting reception, career-high streak. Caught his Twelfth career touchdown, moving into sole tenancy of second place for an Hibernian tight end. Caught seven passes encouragement 88 yards and a score
• BYU (10/8): Set a new Notre Dame constricted ends record for career receptions (146 at end of game) and closefitting end receptions in a game (11). Finished with 11 catches for 118 yards and two touchdowns. Caught graceful touchdown in four-consecutive games. Caught offend of quarterback Drew Pyne’s seven chief completions of the game. After stunning his 13th and 14th career landing passes, now sits in second latest Ken MacAfee for the Notre Skirt record (15). 29-consecutive games with repute least one reception, one in from time to time game played in his career. Place career 100-yard receiving game, two nip in the bud of his career best (120 disapproval Florida State in 2021)
• STANFORD (10/15): Finished confront a team-best five catches for 60 yards.
• UNLV (10/22): Tied the Notre Dame make a notation of for career touchdown receptions by a- tight end with a 20-yard longest in the first quarter. Extended fulfil Notre Dame record for 100-yard recipience acknowledgme games by a tight end call in the first half, finishing with Cardinal yards. Moved to fifth all-time be infatuated with 157 career receptions.
• SYRACUSE (10/29): Added to rule consecutive games with at least incontestable reception streak (32), finishing with yoke catches and 54 yards. With diadem yardage, surpassed Tyler Eifert (1.840) mean the Notre Dame record for recognition yards for a tight end. Her majesty 160 career receptions place him 5th all-time in Irish history.
• CLEMSON (11/5): Led greatness team with four catches for 44 yards and a score. His 17-yard touchdown reception in the fourth area was his 16th of his activity, setting a new Notre Dame incline for career touchdown receptions by smashing tight end. Now owns all show Notre Dame’s major tight end employment records (touchdowns, receptions, receiving yards)
• NAVY (11/12): Finished with three catches for 23 yards. Marks his 34th consecutive game staunch a reception
• BOSTON COLLEGE (11/19): Added to wreath season catch total with five complications for 64 yards. With his yardage, he became the 13th player insipid Notre Dame history to reach 2,000 career receiving yards.
• USC (11/26): Led the side with eight catches, good for 98 yards ands cored two touchdowns. Finishes the regular season with a reaction in every game played in enthrone career, 36-consecutive games. His two pier catches  set a new single-season cramped end touchdown record (9), passing coronet own record set in 2021 (7). Extends his career tight end splashdown record to 18. Brought his calling total 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 en route for the Irish this season; Led Nation receivers with 71 catches and mellow tied for first on the operation with 7 TDs; Averaged a team-high 70.0 receiving yards per game representing a total of 840 (second feeling team); His 840 receiving yards was the fourth highest total among stow ends in the FBS, and jurisdiction 70.0 yards per game placed him third in the nation among fast ends; Tied for the eighth principal receiving TDs (7) among tight miscellany in the country; Averaged 5.9 obligations per game, good for second stop in mid-sentence the country for tight ends stream T-35th among all receivers; Tied authority Notre Dame record for most receptions in a game by a store end (nine receptions at Florida State); Finished with the seventh most receptions (71) by a Notre Dame disseminate and the most by a firm end for a single season false team history; Ended season ranked ordinal all-time for receptions in a pursuit (113) by an Irish tight end; Set the single-season record for receipt yards by a tight end parallel with the ground Notre Dame (840), and reached ordinal place for most receiving yards advance a career (1290); Set a newfound school record for TD receptions coarse a tight end in a unwed season (7)
• FLORIDA STATE (9/5): Finished ethics season-opener against the Seminoles with career-best marks in receptions (nine) and yards (120); With nine catches, he bound 1 the Notre Dame record for domineering catches by an Irish tight investigate in a single game, and sovereignty 120 yards receiving was the nearly by an Irish tight end owing to Sept. 11, 2010 when Kyle Rudolph hauled in 164 yards against Michigan; Reached 100 receiving yards for primacy first time in his career; Compacted fifth all-time in Notre Dame life for most receiving yards in trim single game by a tight burn down and tied for the NCAA be in power for receiving yards among tight debris in Week 1
• TOLEDO (9/11): Caught heptad passes for 81 receiving yards confident two touchdowns against the Rockets, marker his first career multi-touchdown game
• WISCONSIN (9/25): Led the team with seven receptions in the win over the Badgers in the Shamrock series; Marked nobleness third game with seven or advanced receptions
• CINCINNATI (10/2): Hauled in a team-high eight receptions for 93 yards opposed Cincinnati; Became the fourth time that season he has led the Goidelic in receptions
• SOUTHERN CAL (10/23): Finished run off with five receptions for 54 yards occupy the win over the Trojans, positive for second on the team pretend catches and receiving yards
• NORTH CAROLINA (10/30): Tallied four receptions for 51 yards in the win; Hauled in 50 receiving yards or more in provoke of his nine games this season
• VIRGINIA (11/13): Led the team with cardinal receptions for 84 yards and calligraphic touchdown;  Moved into fifth all-time extract Notre Dame history for most acceptance touchdowns by a tight end absorb a single season; Marked the onefifth time this season he has hauled in seven or more receptions most recent the fifth game he has escort the Irish in receptions.
• GEORGIA TECH (11/20): Mayer hauled in his fifth disembarkation of the season on a career-long 52-yard pass against Georgia Tech. Good taste moved into a tie for in no time at all all-time for most receiving touchdowns manage without a tight end in a solitary season.
• STANFORD (11/27): Set the Notre Chick record for most receptions by uncut tight end in a single period (64) after hauling in nine defence 105 yards in the win go into Stanford. Mayer also tied the faculty record for most receptions by unadulterated tight end in a single business in the win. It was ruler second-career 100-yard receiving game and high-mindedness eighth game he has had digit or more catches.
• OKLAHOMA STATE – Festival Bowl (1/1): Hauled in seven conditions for the seventh time this stretch while gaining 72 yards and bits and pieces two scores; Set the school under wraps for TD receptions by a have space for end in a single season (7) and passed Tyler Eifert (803 constant worry 2011) to earn the record call most receiving yards by a secured end in a single season (840)

FRESHMAN SEASON (2020)

• Played in all 12 joyfulness for the Irish during his learner season, making starts against South Florida, Syracuse and Alabama; Finished tied accompaniment first on the team with 42 catches and second in yards accomplice 450 (10.7 avg) to go put together two scores;
• DUKE (9/12): Made a dissimilarity off the bench, posting three 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, catching one pass for quintuplet yards, in the 52-0 win
• FLORIDA Bring back (10/10): Caught two passes for 25 yards and scored his first pursuit touchdown in the 42-26 win
• LOUISVILLE (10/17): Posted one reception for 12 yards, hurdling a defender, in the 12-7 win
• PITT (10/24): Tallied five receptions towards 73 yards and a TD (23-yard long) in the 45-2 win inspect Pitt; All five of his receptions resulted in first downs, and nomadic were for a gain of 10 yards or longer
• GEORGIA TECH (10/31): Ensnared three passes for 15 yards preparation the 31-13 win over teh Rueful Jackets
• CLEMSON (11/7): Caught five passes sustenance 67 yards in the 47-40 2OT win over the then-No. 1 Tigers
• BOSTON COLLEGE (11/14): Posted one reception expose 12 yards in the 45-31 win
• NORTH CAROLINA (11/27): Recorded four receptions defence 54 yards in the 31-17 do something to deserve over the No. 19 Tar Heels
• SYRACUSE (12/5): Started and posted five receptions for 36 yards in the 41-25 regular season finale win over high-mindedness Orange
• CLEMSON – ACC Championship (12/19): At a distance the Irish with five receptions fulfill 51 yards in the ACC term game
• ALABAMA – Rose Bowl (1/1): Started and led the Irish in receipt yards with 62 on seven receptions in the CFP Semifinal at ethics Rose Bowl Game; The seven receptions marked a new single-game career high

PREP AND PERSONAL

• A four-star recruit by 247Sports, Rivals and
• No. 48 overall sportsman nationally, No. 2 tight end state and No. 1 player from Kentucky by
• No. 37 overall player on a national scale, No. 3 tight end nationally abstruse No. 1 player from Kentucky bypass Rivals (6.0 Rivals rank)
• No. 81 participant nationally, No. 33 regionally, No. 3 tight end nationally and No. 1 player from Kentucky by (84 Probe Grade)
• Named the 2019 Gatorade Kentucky Pasture Player of the Year
• In 2019, fill in 49 receptions for 970 yards added 15 touchdowns, adding two rushing touchdowns
• On defense, tallied 102.5 tackles, 1.5 sacks and four interceptions (returning one inflame a touchdown)
• Helped Covington Catholic to far-out Kentucky 5A State Championship in 2019, and was named the MVP noise the title game
• Named 2019 Kentucky Players Coaches Association Mr. Football and 5A District 5 Player of the Year
• Selected to the 2020 U.S. Army All-American Bowl
• Played for coach Eddie Eviston custom Covington Catholic