Xavier Watts Practicing at Wide Receiver for Notre Dame

Notre Dame Fighting Irish linebacker Xavier Watts (Photo by Kevin Abele/Icon Sportswire)With Notre Dame’s numbers dwindling at wide receiver following the injury to Avery Davis last week, it seemed inevitable that Notre Dame would move someone to receiver at some point. On Wednesday, we learned that someone just might be former wide receiver Xavier Watts. The junior who switched to defensive mid-year last year was seen wearing a new jersey number and practicing with the wide receivers on Wednesday.

Watts changed his jersey to #4 in the spring – the same jersey number as sophomore wide receiver Lorenzo Styles. As recently as this week’s podcast, I felt the chances of Watts moving back to…