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Notre Dame running back out for the year

How do you feel about Notre Dame’s running backs entering the 2022 season now?

Notre Dame freshman running back [autotag]Jadarian Price[/autotag] was supposed to make an impact this fall but now his season is already over before it even began.  Notre Dame announced that Price suffered a ruptured achilles tendon recently and underwent surgery this week.  The injury will keep him out for the entire 2022 season.

Price was a four-star running back out of Denison, Texas and enrolled early at Notre Dame this spring.  Price was one of the stars of the annual Blue-Gold Game as he totaled 116 yards on 17 touches.

The injury puts a further dent in what should be a talented running back room for Notre Dame.  Sophomore [autotag]Logan Diggs[/autotag] suffered a torn labrum in the spring game and his status for the opener at Ohio State remains unknown.

Junior [autotag]Chris Tyree[/autotag], sophomore [autotag]Audric Estime[/autotag], and freshman [autotag]Gi’Bran Payne[/autotag] are the only three scholarship backs currently healthy on the Notre Dame roster.

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Notre Dame lands four-star receiver Braylon James

Nice get.

Notre Dame always could use high-end talent at the offensive skills positions. Entering Tuesday, it was one of the finalists for receiver recruit Braylon James, who was ready to announce his decision. If the Irish could get James, it would continue the momentum received from the commitment of running back recruit Gi’Bran Payne. And that’s exactly what happened as James has become the ninth commit in the Irish’s class of 2023 and the first junior to commit in two months.

When asked to comment by Rivals site InsideNDSports, James said the following:

“What separated Notre Dame was the life-after-football aspect. That degree is going to take you places that you can’t even imagine. On top of that, they have the entire Irish network.

If you look around, I am pretty sure that nearly everyone from Notre Dame is successful. It’s hard not to be successful in graduating from Notre Dame.

In having (head) coach (Marcus) Freeman there, he will elevate Notre Dame’s success on the football field. Just getting to know coach Free and seeing how much he cares about this entire process and seeing how he cares about the team.

I see him turning this entire program around. That is why they have done so well in this recruiting cycle, and it is going to continue to grow because of the fact that he genuinely cares and is invested in this process. It is going to be special.”

Oh, and he has high hopes about the program for his time with it, too:

Congratulations to James on his decision and to Irish receivers coach Chansi Stuckey on such a big get.

Running back recruit Gi’Bran Payne commits to Notre Dame

Ladies and gentlemen, we got him.

For the past month-and-a-half, our Michael Chen has been keeping tabs on Gi’Bran Payne, a running back recruit based in Cincinnati. Earlier this week, Payne set Good Friday as the day he would announce his decision. True to his word, he did just that, and it’s good news for Irish fans:

Notre Dame’s gain is a loss for Indiana, with which Payne previously had signed a letter of intent before asking for and being granted his release. Not so coincidental is that Marcus Freeman hired Hoosiers Deland McCullough to the same position after losing Lance Taylor to Louisville.

As for whether the Irish needed another running back in their 2022 recruiting class, Irish beat writer Pete Sampson of The Athletic offered this:

“With Payne on board, Notre Dame should have five scholarship running backs on the roster this fall with Chris Tyree, Logan Diggs, Audric Estime and Jadarian Price. A year from now, that number could grow to seven after adding Class of 2023 commitment and top target Jayden Limar, who plans to visit for the Blue-Gold Game next weekend.

Would Notre Dame really carry seven scholarship running backs at one time? Probably not, which might be a tell of future roster turnover. There’s nothing wrong with letting a group of four-star prospects fight it out for carries, then wishing those at the bottom of the depth chart well if they’re looking for a bigger opportunity.”

Hey, if running back becomes as powerful a position for Notre Dame as tight end, there’s nothing wrong with that.

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Potential late addition to Notre Dame’s ‘22 recruiting class sets commitment date

The Irish 2022 class could add one more player

While many of us thought that the Irish were finished with the 2022 recruiting class, behind the scenes it seems like that is not the case. When Ohio running back Gi’Bran Payne signed his letter of intent with Indiana, we all thought that he would have ended up in Bloomington this fall.

That turned out not to be the case, as Payne asked for and was granted his release from his signed letter of intent from Indiana. He then started the process all over again and it looks like Payne has narrowed down his choices to Kentucky and Notre Dame. A visit to Lexington earlier this month went well but the Wildcats didn’t get a signature from Payne.

It doesn’t take much to put the tea leaves together, as not only was Payne visiting Marcus Freeman and the Irish this past weekend, he has set his announcement date for this coming Friday following the visit.

We will soon find out if the Irish start the weekend on the right foot on the recruiting trail.

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Notre Dame Offers Top 10 ‘22 Running Back

Gi’Bran Payne, a 5-10, 190 pound running back from La Salle High School in Cincinnati was given a scholarship offer by the Fighting Irish on Thursday

One day after landing their next running back in class of 2021 commitment Logan Diggs, Notre Dame got right back after it on the recruiting trail as they made an offer to one of the top backs in the ’22 class.

Gi’Bran Payne, a 5-10, 190 pound running back from La Salle High School in Cincinnati was given a scholarship offer by the Fighting Irish on Thursday.

247Sports ranks Payne as a four-star talent and the tenth best running back nationwide in the entire 2022 recruiting class.  They also rank only four players in the entire talent-rich state of Ohio ahead of him in that class.

Payne has roughly 15 scholarship offers and on the Fourth of July named his then top ten teams which included Alabama, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, Louisville, Michigan, Northwestern, Penn State, Pitt, West Virginia and Wisconsin.  It’s worth noting he did say in that announcement that his recruitment remains 100% open.

Payne averaged over 10 yards per carry as a high school sophomore, totaling 790 yards on 77 carries.  He also totaled 13 touchdowns (9 rushing, 3 receiving and an interception return) despite missing three games.

Related:  Meet Notre Dame’s 2022 Recruiting Class Commitments