Irish Illustrated back for another edition of Tracking the Trail, our recruiting podcast.

I'm Kevin Sinclair, joined by Eric Thomas.

It's going to be a pretty loaded podcast today, just in terms of the material we're going to get through for obvious reasons.

There was an official visit weekend that just passed. And last week, the day that we had our last podcast, Notre Dame

kicked off a sort of midweek official visits with three prospects. We'll probably start there

with those recruits. We'll go ahead and start with Jadon Blair,

who just after the visit ended on Thursday, he pretty much had to go directly to Ann Arbor for his

official visit at Michigan. He's got several lined up. He's been to a few official visits. He's got a few

more coming.

And I heard from Jadon Blair today while he was on his way to Florida State. But Eric, you and I have

talked about him a whole lot. You spoke at length with his coach. You know, I don't know if there's

much that we haven't already discussed from previous podcasts. But, you know, just for a starter, what do you think of Blair and just sort of the potential of landing him and sort of, you know,

the class impact that way, if that were to happen hypothetically? Yeah. I mean, look, Blair,

we've talked extensively about, you know, what a quality player he is. He offers a lot of

versatility and range in the defensive secondary. For Notre Dame to

continue to have championship aspirations, guys like Blair are exactly what you're looking for.

Big bodied hitters. They can tackle. They can play multiple roles. And they allow you to be

versatile with the alignment of your secondary players. And that's the evolution of the Al Golden

defense that Marcus Freeman has talked about openly here this offseason.

So he's sort of an ideal fit for the evolving nature of this defense.

I think that importance is only underscored more with obviously some of the Ivan Taylor news and things.

And we'll get into that.

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