Louisville football: 3 second-year players who’ll become stars in 2023

Louisville football is undergoing plenty of changes this offseason with Scott Satterfield leaving for Cincinnati and Purdue’s Jeff Brohm taking over at his alma mater.

The Cardinals had a slightly disappointing 2022 season and will rely on some second-year players to turn things around in Brohm’s first season as head coach. It’s not going to be easy to make this a seamless transition, but enough top prospects from the Cardinals’ 2022 class stuck around that we could see Louisville bowling in 2023, at the very least.

Here are a few top prospects from the 2022 class that could star for Louisville in 2023.

There were three receivers ranked ahead of Chris Bell in Louisville’s 2022 class, but Chris Bell had the biggest immediate impact of the group as a freshman.

The Cardinals had four-star Devaughn Mortimer and three-stars Chance Morrow and Maurice Turner to work with in the 2022 class, but Bell stood out above that talented group and earned some serious playing time. Oh, and it helped that one of those guys actually moved to running back because the receiver room was set.

Bell finished sixth on the team with 105 yards on seven receptions in nine games. It wasn’t exactly the most productive season but he showed flashes of what he could contribute.

And Jeff Brohm is no stranger to producing elite receivers from the ranks of the underrated and that’s exactly what Bell is.