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LB, DL and DB recruiting should be interesting. by ribs

As Jvan noted below, Freeman is shopping from a different aisle. There's a reasonable chance ND will be turning away LB and DB prospects with rankings and profiles which would have been better than average for ND in previous classes. The top of the board for these positions appears to be significantly higher than the last few years. Several top-100 guys who are looking very closely at ND. Of course, none of this matters if he can't close any of them. Hope there is a good "plan b", just in case.

247 Sports has ND with the 4th ranked class for 2022. I certainly don't expect ND to stay in the top 5, but they are well-ahead of where they were a year ago.