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Defensive End David Abiara Has De-Committed From Notre Dame

Notre Dame has lost a member of its 2021 recruiting class, though it shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone who has followed this closely.

Notre Dame has lost a member of its 2021 recruiting class, though it shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone who has followed this story closely. Defensive end David Abiara announced on social media that he is de-committing from the program:

Abiara, a product of Mansfield Legacy in Texas, never seemed on board with Notre Dame completely, even after he committed in late March. As Bryan Driskell reports, he still was talking to Big 12 programs and hardly was communicating with the Irish’s staff. The final straw came after he was arrested for criminal trespass a month ago.

Abiara will play college football somewhere as he’s too talented not to do so. However, it’s obvious that he was not on the best of terms with anyone in South Bend. Plus, it’s probably better for the Irish that they won’t have a recruit with this type of legal trouble coming in. In a situation like this, you’re better off moving on and not dwelling on it at all.

Notre Dame Makes Texas Defensive Ends Top Seven

Notre Dame defensive line coach Mike Elston visited and extended Abiara the scholarship offer on January 23 before special teams and recruiting coordinator Brian Polian visited the defensive end a week later.

Life can come at you fast. Just a few short weeks ago David Abiara, strong-side defensive end from Legacy High School in Mansfield, Texas didn’t even appear on Notre Dame’s radar.

Fast-forward just a couple short weeks later and the three-star defensive end has since made a visit to Notre Dame and put the Fighting Irish in his top seven school rankings.

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Abiara has also received offers from Alabama, LSU and Texas A&M in the last ten days, all of which made that top-seven. Joining those three and Notre Dame among on list for Abiara are Baylor, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State.

Notre Dame defensive line coach Mike Elston visited and extended Abiara the scholarship offer on January 23 before, according to Mike Singer of Blue Gold Illustrated, special teams and recruiting coordinator Brian Polian visited the defensive end a week later.

Just days after that Abiara was on Notre Dame’s campus.

Abiara is ranked as the 41st best player in Texas for 2021 and the 19th highest strong-side defensive end in the nation on Rivals.

And if you were told a player who has already committed to Notre Dame’s 2021 class was taking to Twitter to help recruit Abiara, would it take you more than one guess to figure out who it was?

Surprising to nobody, Big Blake Fisher remains Notre Dame’s best unpaid recruiter.

Notre Dame Makes Yet Another ’21 Defensive Lineman a Scholarship Offer

Thursday morning saw David Abiari, a 6-4, 240 pound defensive end from Legacy High School in Mansfield, Texas announce his scholarship offer from Brian Kelly and the Notre Dame staff.

Rinse, repeat.

For the fourth straight day Notre Dame has made at least one scholarship offer to a defensive player in the 2021 recruiting class.

Thursday morning saw David Abiari, a 6-4, 240 pound defensive end from Legacy High School in Mansfield, Texas announce his scholarship offer from Brian Kelly and the Notre Dame staff.

ESPN ranks Abiari the 289th best player in the 2021 recruiting class while 247Sports ranks him at 318.

Abiari has already received offers from the likes of Baylor, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Wisconsin and others while he announced an offer from Northwestern shortly after announcing the Notre Dame offer early Thursday.