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Julian Okwara commits to Notre Dame: Fighting Irish land 4-star DE

By Patrick Schmidt

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The Notre Dame Fighting Irish received the commitment of four-star defensive end Julian Okwara.

Julian Okwara Charlotte, N.C. Ardrey Kell) is the latest commitment for head coach Brian Kelly at Notre Dame who added the 6-4, 210-pound weak-side defensive end on Tuesday.

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Okwara is the nation’s No. 186 overall recruit, No. 11 weak-side defensive end and the No. 6 recruit in the state of North Carolina where defensive linemen seem to grow on trees.

He is the younger brother of Notre Dame senior defensive lineman Romeo Okwara and had 90 tackles and 10 sacks last year as a junior. His took a visit to South Bend to see the Notre Dame campus at the end of March where they emerged as his favorites.

“Just everything I went through the whole weekend,” said Okwara to 247Sports’ Ryan Bartow on wht Notre Dame became his leader after the trip. “The academics, alumni, the stadium, football staff and everything my brother Romeo has gone through up there.”

Notre Dame is getting a player who can get after the quarterback and whether that’s with his hand in the dirt as a defensive end or as an outside linebacker who rushes the quarterback from a two-point stance, the Fighting Irish landed a player with the instincts and the ability to disrupt plays in the backfield and take the quarterback down.

Check out his highlights of his junior season in the highlight video from his Hudl page below.

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