Notre Dame football found its quarterback commitment in the 2025 class from a familiar face.
Four-star recruit Blake Hebert visited Notre Dame and received an offer from the Irish in June 2023 less than a week before he gave his verbal commitment to Clemson. On Monday, Hebert backed away from his pledge to the Tigers to commit to Notre Dame.
Hebert announced his commitment to the Irish on social media Monday evening. Rivals ranks Hebert as the No. 17 pro-style quarterback in the 2025 class.
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Notre Dame became in desperate need of a 2025 quarterback commitment after four-star recruit Deuce Knight ditched the Irish for Auburn on Oct. 2. Notre Dame had plenty of time to evaluate which quarterbacks it wanted to pursue while Knight was busy making repeated trips to Auburn this fall while remaining publicly committed to the Irish.
Notre Dame circled back on Hebert, who was one of the first quarterback offers extended by Notre Dame quarterbacks coach Gino Guidugli after he was hired in early 2023. At that time, Hebert was coming off a sophomore season at Lawrence (Mass.) Central Catholic, the same school that sent three-star linebacker Preston Zinter to Notre Dame in the 2023 class.
Hebert missed most of his junior season at Central Catholic before transferring to Greenwich (Conn.) Brunswick School, where he teams with a pair of 2025 Notre Dame commits: four-star safety Ethan Long and four-star offensive tackle Matty Augustine.
In the first three games of his senior season, Hebert completed 34 of his 60 passes for 593 yards and five touchdowns with four interceptions. Brunswick has not reported stats to MaxPreps for the past two games.
"After last season when he missed a very large portion of it with an ankle injury, we wanted to see how he would bounce back from that," said Rivals national rankings director Adam Friedman. "He's playing a higher level of competition this fall. The performance that he has as a senior against this better competition is going to be really telling for how steep the learning curve is going to be for him when he gets to the college level.
"Mobility was always a big part of his game. Having seen him in person this spring and knowing he continued to put in the work to get back to his old self and surpass that, I expect to see him be able to throw on the move like he did before but have a better understanding of the offense and be able to process faster. Those are the little things we're going to be looking for in this final senior evaluation."
Hebert became the second flipped commitment of the day for Notre Dame. Three-star offensive lineman Cameron Herron flipped his commitment from Iowa to Notre Dame earlier Monday.
The Irish are up to 23 verbal commitments in the class with 16 four-star recruits and 7 three-star recruits. Notre Dame's class is ranked No. 13 overall in the country with just 35 points in the Rivals formula separating No. 9 Texas A&M and Notre Dame.
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