A couple days after Bryce Young went no. 1 overall in the NFL Draft to the Charlotte Panthers, Notre Dame picks up Bryce Young the defensive lineman out of Charlotte Christian School. His school is home to such athletic legends as Matthias Farley and Steph Curry, with Notre Dame hoping 2024 receiver Micah Gilbert commits [...]
Notre Dame added its 10th member of the 2024 recruiting class on Saturday prior to the Blue-Gold Game as Hoschton, Georgia defensive end Cole Mullins committed to the Irish. Mullins attends Mill Creek High School outside Atlanta and is coming off a AAAAAAA state championship playing alongside 5-star (and MaxPreps National Player of the Year) [...]
Notre Dame kicked off the 2025 recruiting cycle with its first verbal commit on Friday night as Florida defensive tackle Davion Dixon started the class off after visiting campus and receiving an offer from Marcus Freeman. The high school sophomore plays for Belen Jesuit Prep in Miami and has been a disruptive interior prospect early [...]
Our last stop on this tour of grades and comments ends with the defensive backs from the 2023 recruiting class. This unit was close to being one of the best hauls in the nation, but suffered a late and very disappointing decommit. But, it's still a really strong group! As a reminder, here's our standard [...]
The leader of the 2023 Notre Dame recruiting class is covered today as we continue to breakdown each position group from this past cycle. It's the linebackers up next! As a reminder, here's our standard grading scale for this exercise: 95-100: Truly elite prospect with All-American potential 90-94: Multi-year starter with All-conference level potential 85-89: [...]
Notre Dame looked to have an excellent defensive line class led by Keon Keeley for the 2023 cycle. Keeley signed with Alabama and the Irish were left reeling quite a bit. So far we've broken down the grades for the offensive line and the rest of the incoming freshmen on offense. Now we are grading [...]
If you haven't already, check out our full 2023 Notre Dame Recruiting Review on this class a whole. Now we will look at each of the players from this Fighting Irish class in more detail. Today, it's time to get excited for a really promising group of skill players at quarterback, running back, wide receiver, [...]
Joe Rudolph has now landed his first offensive line commitment as a member of the Notre Dame staff. It's a commitment that very few Notre Dame fans could have foreseen just a week ago, as Anthonie Knapp didn't have receive an offer from Notre Dame until Friday, March 24th, during his first visit to South [...]
Notre Dame has welcomed new offensive line coach Joe Rudolph from Virginia Tech this off-season and he sets out to recruit on his own terms for 2024 and beyond. But first, we will recap the last class to sign with the retiring Harry Hiestand. If you missed our 2023 recruiting class overview, click HERE. As [...]
It's officially spring and we are finally ready to unleash our review of the 2023 Notre Dame recruiting class. This was technically the first full recruiting cycle for Marcus Freeman (although with the early signing day and general accelerated nature of recruiting these days some may argue 2024 is the real first full cycle with [...]
In case you missed it, I recently reviewed my way-too-early guess at Notre Dame’s recruiting class of 2023. Now we move on to 2024. The Irish are currently sitting in a good spot with the 3rd ranked recruiting class in the country and average commit grade of .9260. But, as we found out when I made [...]
February signing day came and went quietly last month for Notre Dame, which means it's time for me to once again look back at my early guess for the cycle. My Way-Too-Early Guess at Notre Dame Football's Recruiting Class of 2023 was released in mid-March of 2022 when the Irish were sitting pretty with the [...]
Cornerbacks coach Mike Mickens added another piece to the Notre Dame defensive back room today when CB Leonard Moore verbally committed to the Fighting Irish. The 6'2"/175-pounder out of Round Rock, TX is the 8th commitment for Notre Dame's recruiting class of 2024 -- a class that currently ranks 2nd in the nation via the [...]
There's no doubt that roster churn in college football is very real these days. I can remember back in the early Brian Kelly days with these scholarship articles discussing the difficult decisions of having 1 or 2 players not making their mark on the field having sit downs with the coaching staff to look elsewhere [...]
Wednesday morning December 21st opens up the first day of the early signing period for college football. If you're reading this and missed the ESD Primer, click HERE and get caught up on Notre Dame's 2023 recruiting class. This has never felt like the old first Wednesday of February National Signing Day bonanza that we [...]
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