Blue-Gold Weekend Recruiting Preview
Spring games tend to provide the greatest variety of visiting recruits on the sidelines and Saturday’s Blue-Gold Game at Notre Dame will be no different.
Multiple prospects who signed with the Irish out of the 2018 class and will be on the field for the next practice Notre Dame holds will be in attendance. They will be joined by some Notre Dame’s top 2019 and 2020 targets with offers in hand along with multiple others hoping to land scholarships and all of the way down to student-athletes who are closer to the beginning of their high school careers than the beginning of their college ones.
2019 Minnesota offensive lineman Quinn Carroll may be the biggest target on campus this weekend. The 6-foot-6, 290-pounder from Edina High School has offers from the nation’s biggest programs like Alabama, Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, Florida, LSU, Georgia, USC and UCLA among several others, but the Irish have always been one of the frontrunners. They enter the weekend looking like the frontrunners, but as we mentioned in Friday’s ISD Intel, we’re not expecting an immediate commitment.
2019 New Jersey defensive lineman Howard Cross III just received his offer from the Irish a few weeks ago, but Notre Dame immediately became a serous contender. He talked about his excitement heading into the trip with ISD earlier in the week. The St. Joseph Regional High School standout has offers from schools like Rutgers, Boston College, Duke, Northwestern, Michigan, Tennessee, Virginia Tech and Maryland among others and is looking for a blend of athletics and academics. We’re not necessarily expecting him to commit this weekend, but as we mentioned in Intel, it wouldn’t surprise us.
2019 Illinois wide receiver/athlete Kendall Abdur-Rahman will also arrive in South Bend with an offer in hand. Abdur-Rahman is an electric athlete with offers from multiple Midwest programs. Irish Sports Daily is high on his potential.
Ohio defensive tackle Darrion Henry, Illinois athlete/wide receiver AJ Henning, Indiana defensive tackle Cole Brevard and Illinois offensive lineman Peter Skoronski are among the top 2020 targets with offers who will be in attendance.
Henning is a speedster who was left speechless by the Irish offer in January. He was impressed by his first trip to South Bend back in March. Notre Dame got in pretty early and his offer sheet now includes schools like Michigan, Michigan State, Penn State and Stanford among others.
Skoronski also has early offers from Illinois, Iowa, Penn State and Western Michigan while Brevard also has offers from schools like Ohio State, Wisconsin and Penn State. Brevard was in South Bend last month.
Henry landed his offer during his visit for March's Junior Day. The Cincinnati native also has offers from schools like Ohio State, Penn State, Michigan, Michigan State and Iowa among others. His interest in Notre Dame is serious and his coach at Princeton High School is familiar with the staff in South Bend from his time as a player at Cincy and time on that staff and Quinn's staff at Buffalo.
Henry will be joined by a pair of Princeton classmates. 2020 linebacker Jaheim Thomas already has offers from Michigan, Michigan State and Rutgers among others. 2020 cornerback Elijah Eberhardt has an early offer from Western Michigan and told us he will be in town as well.
2020 Wisconsin offensive lineman Trey Wedig and 2020 Kansas offensive lineman Turner Corcoran could be on offer watch this weekend. Wedig already has offers from schools like Wisconsin, Michigan and Iowa State among others while Corcoran comes in with Iowa State and Kansas State offers.
2019 Florida offensive lineman Zachary Teter could end up leaving with an offer as well. The Lakeland native has offers from Cal, Cincy, Temple and Southern Miss. 2019 Kentucky linebacker Jared Casey will also be on campus. He 2019 Illinois lineman Jarod DePriest was in South Bend back in March for the Junior Day and will be back this weekend. He has some small-school offers as an offensive lineman, but the Irish and some Big Ten schools are looking at him as a defensive lineman.
2020 Oregon cornerbax Max Lenzy, the younger brother of 2018 signee Braden Lenzy, will also be on campus.
2021 Ohio quarterback Judah Holtzclaw will be one of the younger prospects on campus, but is one to watch. He's receiving interest from schools like Pitt, Iowa and Wisconsin among others.