Welcome to Irish Illustrated Insider, a special edition today, Wednesday, August 24th.

It's going to be myself and Kevin Sinclair talking Norning football recruiting.

And this is something that we want to launch today in the plan moving forward is that every Wednesday of a home week, a home football game, we will be joining Kevin Sinclair to talk about Nordame recruiting.

Kevin, welcome.

Let's start with a couple of or several of the Notre Dame receivers, a couple of receivers that are verbally committed to Notre Dame, Breland James, in the class of 2023, Rico Flores.

Man, Rico Flores sure looks like he's improved his speed.

Yeah, you know, so basically, Flores had his season opener on Friday.

I had a pretty long discussion with his

long-time trainer the previous Monday. He'd explained to me, you know, I'd ask, you know, what did

he really work on over the offseason? Like, what did, it's an improvement I might see. And he said

speed. We worked on speed, speed, speed, all off season. And usually with a guy who's like, you know, junior going into his senior year, you can really only add so much more speed.

There's speed usually kind of is what it is at that point. So I kind of took that out of

the grain of salt. But when I watched him on Friday, you could, you could see that, see the tangible

evidence of that. He just looks to step quicker out there.

And, you know, playing against a pretty good, a pretty good defense, you know, he had seven

catches where I believe it was over 150 yards and two touchdowns. He caught this pass along the

seam and just out sprinted the defensive backs to the end zone untouched.

A little later in the game, he, from their own 40, he ran a deep post route,

just outran the coverage, follows there, but a 51, 52-yard throw, caught that for a

touch set. So he's really stretching the field. And I think in our analysis of him

so far has been, he's really been more of a possession guy, right? Of course, in college,

defensive backs level up more speed, and we'll see how that goes. But I just feel like,

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