As the son of NFL legend Larry Fitzgerald, most expected Devin Fitzgerald to follow in his father’s footsteps with Pittsburgh. Instead, the three-star receiver committed to Notre Dame for the 2026 college football season, citing a desire to create his own legacy.
While acknowledging that his father will always be a part of his story, Devin Fitzgerald’s main reason in choosing Notre Dame was to forge his own path, he told TMZ Sports. The younger Fitzgerald still has one year of high school remaining, but is already all-in on the Fighting Irish.
“I’m just trying to create my own legacy,” Fitzgerald said, via TMZ Sports. “I love being a Fitzgerald, but I also just want to be known as Devin… It’s cool and all that people are giving me stuff because of my dad, but on the football side, I feel like they’re not getting anything out of my dad for me being able to go to their school.”
After spending a year at Valley Forge Military Academy, Larry Fitzgerald dominated in his two seasons at Pittsburgh. He racked up 2,677 receiving yards and 34 touchdowns in his two years, winning the Biletnikoff Award and Big East Player of the Year Award in 2003. Fitzgerald’s No. 1, which his son currently wears, has since been retired by the Panthers.
Devin Fitzgerald has one more season at Brophy College Preparatory, an all-male high school in Phoenix, Arizona, before moving to South Bend. He committed to Notre Dame over offers from Arizona, UCLA, Clemson, Stanford and others. As an academically motivated student-athlete, the 18-year-old also fielded offers from Cornell, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Dartmouth and Yale.
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