A week before Christmas, Notre Dame signed 18 high school seniors on the early National Signing Day and Ohio State transfer, safety Isaiah Pryor.
Shortly after they added Northwestern transfer, wide receiver Bennett Skowronek to help fill the enormous hole left with Chase Claypool’s departure.
The 20 new additions to the Fighting Irish appeared to be it for the 2020 recruiting class but the deeper we get into January, the more we see that possibly not being the case.
Cameron Martinez, a 5-11, 183 pound athlete from Muskegon, Michigan had committed to Ohio State on the Fourth of July.
Funny this is however, the early signing period came and went without Martinez signing with Ryan Day’s Ohio State Buckeyes.
So enter Notre Dame.
What appears to have happened is Ohio State’s defensive backs coach Jeff Hafley took the head coaching job at Boston College. As a result, Martinez, who was recruited by Ohio State as a defensive back, is yet to put his commitment in paper.
So Notre Dame has jumped back in and we assume they’re not the only ones again interested.
Martinez, who starred at quarterback in high school and was an incredible playmaker. So much in fact he was named Michigan’s Gatorade Player of the Year this past fall and he may want to play offense in college instead of defense where it sounds like most coaches have guided him towards.
Like Ohio State, Notre Dame is currently operating without a certain secondary coach as Todd Lyght has stepped down since the season’s conclusion.
Because of that I’m not letting myself get too excited about a potential extra member in this class, but it’s certainly something to keep an eye on.
It may be easy to request Brian Kelly and his staff to offer Martinez to come play offense, but that’d be also ignoring the holes that remain at the corner position.
For what it’s worth I’m still not at a place where I expect Martinez to flip from Ohio State but it’s refreshing to hear Notre Dame still being linked to him and the 2020 class possibly still being able to grow by one.