Elijah Burress, son of Plaxico, commits to Notre Dame

Elijah Burress, the son of former Michigan State and NFL vast receiver Plaxico Burress, dedicated to Notre Dame on Saturday.

The product of DePaul Catholic Excessive Faculty (Wayne, N.J.) provides to a 2025 Preventing Irish class that already has seven ESPN 300 prospects, tied for second most with Ohio State. In ESPN’s newest group rankings for the cycle — launched on Dec. 22 — the category sat third behind Georgia and Alabama.

The 6-foot-1, 170-pound Burress caught 25 passes for 434 yards and 5 touchdowns in 10 video games as a junior for the Spartans final season.

Notre Dame recruited two ESPN 300 vast receivers — Cam Williams (No. 47 general) and Micah Gilbert (No. 257 general) — for its 2024 class, which ranked twelfth in ESPN’s rankings.

After enjoying for Nick Saban at Michigan State from 1996 to ’99, the elder Burress was drafted eighth general in 2000 by the Pittsburgh Steelers. He performed 12 seasons for the Steelers, New York Giants and the New York Jets, catching 553 passes for 8,499 yards and 64 touchdowns over 148 profession video games.

Elijah Burress joins four-star cornerback Ivan Taylor (No. 30 general in 2025) at Notre Dame; Taylor’s father, Ike, performed for the Steelers and was teammates with Plaxico Burress.