Michigan Football: Top LB target is trending to Notre Dame
Michigan football fans are surely sick of hearing it, but another top target in the 2023 class is trending towards the Irish in Jaiden Ausberry.
It’s been talked about on this website before and it will likely be again, but Notre Dame has done a really stellar job on the recruiting trail in the 2023 class.
Michigan football and Notre Dame generally recruit a lot of the same kids and over the years, the Wolverines have held their own with the Irish. Cade McNamara was once a Notre Dame commit by the way.
But this year, things have definitely swung in favor of the Irish. Notre Dame had a higher-ranking class in 2022 too, but the Wolverines still landed a really solid class.
Michigan football’s 2023 haul could still be good too but it’s going to take work and it looks like another top target is going to wind up at Notre Dame.
Another 2023 target trending to Notre Dame
Jaiden Ausberry is a 6-foot, 205-pound linebacker ranked 69th overall in the 2023 class according to the 247 sports composite rankings. He’s out of Baton Rouge, Louisiana and while Ron Bellamy (also from Louisiana) has worked hard in this recruitment and got Michigan football an official visit from the top-100 recruit in June, Ausberry is now trending hard with expert projections to the Irish.
Ausberry visited Michigan last and still has one official visit he said that he was going to use the fall. The plan seemed to be a later commitment. However, you can see why Notre Dame would push for an earlier pledge (the leading team always does) and with all of the crystal balls flooding in (six total now), it feels like a commitment could come sooner.
It’s not a crushing blow or shouldn’t be because it always seemed like Ausberry was going to Notre Dame or an SEC school but it’s another talented target off the board. If a commitment doesn’t happen until later, there could still be hope.
But if not, Michigan could be expanding the board at linebacker and that could include another international prospect from Brandon Collier’s PPI program.
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It’s also hard to have hope when it comes to five-star corner Javien Toviano. The Wolverines have done a good job of keeping themselves in the mix but unless he comes back for the recruiting BBQ or a fall visit or both, I wouldn’t get my hopes up. It’s likey going to be Texas or A&M.