Welcome back to the 18 Stripes Big Board for Fighting Irish Football. Today we are taking a look at Notre Dame offers at linebacker — a position that is almost certainly finito right now.

Score Name State Ht./Wt. Temperature
.994 Baron Browning TX 6-3/230 Cold
.965 Drew Singleton NJ 6-2/215 Cold
.959 Nate McBride GA 6-2/220 Cold
.956 Anthony Hines TX 6-3/220 Cold
.935 Nathan Proctor MD 6-2/205 Cold
.922 Leonard Warner GA 6-4/225 Cold
.891 Ellis Brooks VA 6-2/230 Cold
.881 De’Andre Wilder FL 6-2/200 Cold

In the Fold

The Irish landed three linebackers commitments within a few days of the March Junior Day event. Drew White (.845) hails from St. Thomas Aquinas in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Pete Werner (.897) is our in-state guy — he attends Cathedral in Indianapolis. And the crown jewel of this crop of linebackers is Pittsburgh Central Catholic’s David Adams (.946). Pretty cool news on David Adams this week, too. He just broke his high school’s all-time tackles record. Anyway, all three guys seem like rock-solid commits at this point in time.

“In Play”

Notice the quotation marks. Also notice that every player on this board is listed as COLD. The Irish have a full class of linebackers in the fold already, and they just missed out on the only other guy they were pursuing (more on that below). Don’t expect ND to land any of these guys.

Baron Browning has taken official visits to Michigan and Alabama already. He’s also got an OV to Florida State lined up for this weekend, as well as OVs to UCLA and Ohio State set up for later in the season. The big Texas schools are also in the mix here.

Drew Singleton looked like an absolute lock to Michigan for the longest time, and he may still end up in Ann Arbor. But Clemson has received the last two predictions for him on the 247Sports crystal ball feature. Is he slipping out of Jimmy’s grasp? I guess we will find out in the coming months.

Nate McBride has appeared to be a lock to the Georgia Bulldogs for months now, but an official visit to Oregon earlier this month complicated his decision. Georgia is still the favorite, but the Ducks gave him a lot to think about.

Anthony Hines has things narrowed down to Oklahoma and Texas A&M. Oklahoma already has three linebackers in their class right now, but they’re willing to make room for this Top100 talent. The Aggies have one linebacker currently committed. Sources seem split on which team will land this talented linebacker.

Nathan Proctor has been taking hard looks at Maryland, Penn State, Ole Miss, and Virginia Tech. He’s priority targets for all four of those schools. I’m gonna go out on a limb and predict Penn State to land him (their big win over Ohio State this past weekend likely gives their recruiting efforts a nice boost). I could also see him ending up at Maryland.

Leonard Warner was rumored to be setting up a visit to ND a while back, but nothing ever came of it. He’s taking a look at Georgia, Duke, Florida State, Ohio State, and Stanford. But the Bulldogs are the most likely to land him.

Ellis Brooks is a former Duke commit. Now he’s focusing on Maryland and Michigan, with the Terps the favorite to land him.

Miami is the expected landing spot of De’Andre Wilder. He also seems to like Auburn and Alabama.

Off the Board

Jacob Phillips was the last linebacker Notre Dame was targeting for this class. He’s an elite prospect who the staff liked as an all-around linebacker who also has the ability to rush the quarterback. The Irish battled back and forth with Oklahoma, and Alabama got in the mix for a bit, too. But the Sooners ended up earning his pledge earlier this month.

Levi Draper — Oklahoma

Will Ignont — Tennessee

Josh Ross — Michigan

Sampson Niu — Oregon

Malik Robinson — North Carolina

Dylan Moses and VanDarius Cowan — Alabama

Hamsah Nasirildeen — South Carolina

Antjuan Simmons — Ohio State

Chandler Wooten — Auburn