Nation's No. 1 basketball prospect Tyran Stokes expected to join his high school's football team this week
By Thomas Frey
Sep 15, 2025, 4:00pm
The 6-foot-7, 245-pound senior could play wide receiver for Notre Dame according to Tarek Fattal.
The uncommitted 6-foot-7, 245-pound senior could play wide receiver Fattal reported.
As a junior at Notre Dame, Stokes averaged 21 points, 9.3 rebounds and 3.9 assists per game, earning third team MaxPreps All-America honors. His Knights squad reached the Open Division state semifinals.
By joining the Notre Dame football team, Tyran Stokes is charting a course that few basketball players of his caliber have followed in recent years. (PHOTO: Kevin Ballton)
Expected to have a monster senior campaign on the hardwood, Stokes and the Knights were ranked No. 3 nationally in the
way-too-early MaxPreps Top 25 rankings for 2025-26.
Stokes spent his first two years of high school at Prolific Prep and was the No. 1 player in his class when the initial
247Sports Composite 2026 rankings were released on Oct. 11, 2023.
Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisville and USC are considered the leaders in Stokes' recruitment.
Notre Dame's football team is 2-2 and ranked No. 59 in California. Both losses were one-possession games against
Downey and state No. 12
Servite (Anaheim).
Stokes needs 10 padded practices to be eligible. The Knights have a bye this week before playing
Culver City.
