The board has been fairly quiet as most prospects have focused on packing their suitcases for the end of our long national winter the dead period on June 1st. As we mentioned last time, Notre Dame has an absolutely monster month of visits set up, for 2022 and 2023 prospects, and every other school has done the same. Yet the board is not without movements, most notably at the position that the Irish have absolutely owned the last 15 years or so.

The Offense Board

A reminder on how we do this – we’ll include the entire big board table but only review prospects who are above “Cold” status and who have had actual developments of late. Speaking of which, the temperature scale:

  • Hot means the prospect is on commit watch.
  • Warm means the prospect has Notre Dame in a small final group and/or is a possible Irish lean.
  • Mild/Mild+ means the prospect is in regular contact with the staff and has visited or has firm visit plans.
  • Cool means the prospect has some level of contact with the staff and/or vague visit plans; also the default temperature for most new offers.
  • Cold is a known (or reasonably safely assumed) lack of contact with the staff and/or an elimination.

Also, on the 247 Composite scores: Roughly speaking above .9830 is a five star, above .9500 is a top 100 prospect, above .9200 is a top 200 prospect, and above .8900 is a four star. Those slide around a little within a cycle and from one cycle to the next, but they’re pretty solid ballpark numbers.

Remember that of course we don’t have perfect information on all prospects – we don’t know for sure whether a prospect has or hasn’t talked to the staff outside of what’s reported elsewhere. We don’t know for sure how high prospects are on the staff’s board. We try to make highly-educated guesses at all of it, but we don’t know.

Unit Position 247C First Name Last Name Temp
O OG 0.9547 Gunner Givens Cold
O OG 0.9469 Carson Hinzman Mild+
O OT 0.9953 Zach Rice Mild
O OT 0.9824 Tyler Booker Cold
O OT 0.9769 Joe Brunner Mild
O OT 0.9523 Aamil Wagner Mild+
O OT 0.9520 Jacob Allen Cold
O OT 0.9490 Julian Armella Cold
O OT 0.9369 Billy Schrauth Warm
O OT 0.9112 Jacob Sexton Cold
O OT 0.9001 Jake Taylor Mild
O OT 0.9000 George Fitzpatrick Mild
O RB 0.9811 Gavin Sawchuk Mild
O RB 0.9575 Nicholas Singleton Mild
O RB 0.9252 Gi’Bran Payne Cold
O RB 0.9136 Dallan Hayden Cool
O RB 0.8967 Damari Alston Cold
O RB 0.8958 Emeka Megwa Cold
O RB 0.8739 Quinshon Judkins Cool
O RB 0.8709 Zach Evans Cold
O TE 0.8810 Arlis Boardingham Cold
O TE 0.8784 Jack Nickel Cold
O WR 0.9885 Kevin Coleman Cold
O WR 0.9842 Evan Stewart Cold
O WR 0.9733 Kaleb Brown Cold
O WR 0.9727 Tetairoa McMillan Cold
O WR 0.9685 CJ Williams Warm
O WR 0.9628 Brenen Thompson Cold
O WR 0.9610 Kojo Antwi Cold
O WR 0.9518 Kendrick Law Cold
O WR 0.9486 Tobias Merriweather Mild+
O WR 0.9389 Darrius Clemons Cold
O WR 0.9353 Antonio Williams Cold
O WR 0.9166 Andre Greene Mild
O WR 0.9161 DJ Allen Cold
O WR 0.9011 Nicholas Anderson Mild
O WR 0.8889 Eli King Cold
O WR 0.8789 Joseph Griffin Mild
O WR 0.8743 Jay Fair Cold
O WR 0.8532 Addison Copeland Cool
O WR 0.0000 Xayvion Bradshaw Cool

On the Board

  • None

Off the Board

  • WR DeNylon Morrissette, Georgia, 0.9123 rating, #35 position/#231 overall
  • TE Holden Staes, Notre Dame, 0.9036 rating, #10 position/#268 overall
  • TE Eli Raridon, Notre Dame, 0.8830 rating, #18 position/#438 overall
  • OT Aliou Bah, Florida State, 0.8763 rating, #49 position/#502 overall

Quarterback

Commits: Steve Angeli, 0.9124 rating, #230 overall/#11 position
Slots: 1

Running Back

Commits: JD Price, 0.9151, #220 overall/#21 position
Slots: 2

Gavin Sawchuk was recently tabbed as the Colorado Gatorade Player of the Year. His visit plans for Notre Dame in late June remain intact, with not much else to report at the moment… Nicholas Singleton (pictured) has four June official visits scheduled, to Notre Dame, Penn State, Alabama, and Wisconsin. Notably absent is Ohio State. We strongly suspect this is a Notre Dame-Penn State battle, with visits set to play a large role… Looks like Ohio State is firmly in the driver’s seat for Dallan Hayden, as has been the case for a while.

We downgraded Quinshon Judkins to Cool as he doesn’t seem to be getting much attention from the staff. Whether that means they feel good about landing one of Sawchuk/Singleton, or they’ve decided to take a second back only if it’s one of those two, I don’t know.

Wide Receiver

Commits: Amorion Walker, 0.8540, #792 overall, #103 position
Slots: 3-4

The Irish continue to be in a strong position – too soon to say a lead position, but certainly a strong position – for CJ Williams and Tobias Merriweather. Both will be on campus next month and Notre Dame could make a big move on those trips… Joseph Griffin was just selected as the MVP of the Rivals New Jersey regional camp and earned an invite to the Rivals Five-Star Challenge this summer. Interesting…

Like with Judkins, we’ve downgraded Addison Copeland and Xayvion Bradshaw to Cool based on an apparent decrease in interest on the Irish side. Copeland’s most likely destination as it looks today is South Carolina, while Bradshaw has a rather puzzling dearth of new offers given the very good game tape he put out this spring. Clearly more staffs than just Notre Dame’s are hesitant.

The departure of erstwhile five-star Jordan Johnson, whose most memorable on-field moment in an Irish uniform came when he punched a USF cornerback, may have opened an additional slot for a receiver in this class. Something to watch there.

Tight End

Commits: Holden Staes, 0.9036 rating, #10 position/#268 overall; Eli Raridon, 0.8830 rating, #18 position/#438 overall
Slots: 2

When last we met Jack Nickel had just decommitted from Notre Dame, with the broad assumption that the staff’s continued pursuit of Staes and Raridon was a major factor in that decision. Fast forward a month, and Staes and Raridon are both in the class, so… Yeah. TE U rolls on with another couple of big, athletic prospects.

Offensive Line

Commits: OT Joey Tanona, 0.9385, #155 overall/#18 position; OT Ty Chan, 0.9235, #199 overall/#26 position
Slots: 4-5

Zach Rice recently added his name to the rather extensive June official visitor list. Other than that there’s not really anything to note here, as the offensive line board has been extremely quiet heading into the end of the dead period. We do get the sense that Billy Schrauth will be in the class sooner rather than later, but beyond that we’re going to have to wait for visits to play out. We believe there will be four linemen in this class unless a fifth that the staff really likes wants to jump in too.