A few weeks ago, I broke down how the top wide receiver in the last 16 Notre Dame recruiting classes had fared out of a conversation sprung from the Jordan Johnson debate. It was an interesting look that forced us to rethink a few things, and in doing so, it made me curious about the other position groups.
So here we are... let’s do the cornerbacks. The top cornerback commit from each recruiting class since 2005 according to the 247 Composite rankings.
2005 — NO CORNERBACK COMMITS
It’s just not the quality of cornerback that Notre Dame had a problem recruiting over the years — it was any number of cornerbacks.