Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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BLUEGOLDONLINE.COM OCT. 29, 2022 15 BY TYLER HORKA S ome college football players would have viewed a near sea- son-ending injury in the first half of their first career start as a true freshman as one of the worst days of their lives. Rightfully so. That's not how they'd have written their own script. But Blake Fisher? He's not just some college football player. He's a 6-foot-6, 327-pound behemoth who was the No. 7 offensive tackle in the country and the No. 1 player out of the state of Indi- ana in the class of 2021 On3 Consensus recruiting rankings. And he's not just an ordinary Indiana boy, either. His life forever took on a dif- ferent meaning when he was 7. That was his age when his sister, Breonna, died of a pulmonary virus that had debilitated her daily life ever since she was 1. She fought until 2011 and passed when she was 10. Now Fisher, Notre Dame's starting sophomore right tackle, fights for her. "My family is everything," Fisher GENTLE GIANT Notre Dame sophomore right tackle Blake Fisher balances a tough on-field persona with charitable off-field actions Fisher posted the second-highest grade on offense (81.9) for the Irish in a 28-20 victory over then-No. 16 BYU in the Shamrock Series Game in Las Vegas. PHOTO BY CHAD WEAVER