Osborne Commits!

[Shakin' Down the Thunder]

Go Irish!

Rivals100 RB Javian Osborne commits to Notre Dame football's 2026 class

Osborne becomes 14th commitment to Notre Dame's second-ranked class

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[stu4don]

Great get, second consensus top 100 player in that class.

 

[futuredomer]

STUD!🍀

 

[Golson5]

Monster Pickup !

He's a stud. His jump cuts and quickness are ridiculous

 

[Golson5]

Great get, second consensus top 100 player in that class.

3rd top 100 composite

Should be 4th or 5th though

 

[BGI User 1596]

Hard running 4 star looking to cut it up field.

 

[JimMc]

FWIW, class rankings are kind of meaningless right now, we’re #2 247 composite and #4 ON3.

Great pickup, always nice breaking the hearts of the skunkbears.

 

[iLOVEtohurdle41]

Let's go!!!! Pumped up right now.

Took one from ohio state yesterday and one from Michigan today. Cheers brothers

 

[Shakin' Down the Thunder]

Guy reminds me of LeSean McCoy. So shifty and quick. Strong center of gravity. Only thing he is lacking is elite speed, but he will break some big ones.

I'm surprised he's not ranked higher, but it does seem like this are a lot of good RBs to be recruited this year.

Man I hope we can add Bonner. That would be a major haul.

 

[hoopsstar12]

When does Kaydon Finley decide? Two offensive standouts from Texas would be nice.

 

[chaseball]

We got to keep this momentum going ALL CYCLE LONG ... it can't be like years/decade past where ND signs nice prospects in the offseason and then recruiting comes to a total stop when the season gets going. It's like a race horse who darts out ahead but has no finish. ND needs to continue to find a way to get in with high 4 star and 5 star prospects that decide later in the cycle. If there are non compatible that are available you start flipping your competitors high 4 star and 5 star prospects down the stretch.

 

[THUNDERSTRUCK111]

I still loathe the days of urban Meyer at Ohio st. Once he got the prospects he wanted he turned to our recruiting class and starting cherry picking our top prospects. Seems like the tides are turning. Jmo

 

[savvyandsassier]

He looks pretty good. We whiffed last year at RB. But with the emergence of Love, Price and co. this past season... not this time.

 

[echowaker]

He looks pretty good. We whiffed last year at RB. But with the emergence of Love, Price and co. this past season... not this time.

I wouldn't consider Nolan James a whiff nor Kedren Young.

 

[Golson5]

He looks pretty good. We whiffed last year at RB. But with the emergence of Love, Price and co. this past season... not this time.

We didn't whiff last year. Nolan James is a really good back

 

[sjb75]

He looks pretty good. We whiffed last year at RB. But with the emergence of Love, Price and co. this past season... not this time.

Moron.

 

[savvyandsassier]

I wouldn't consider Nolan James a whiff nor Kedren Young.

We got Nolan James, at the last minute, who was lightly recruited and wasn't initially recruited by ND. After apparently dropping our initial two RB commitments that we had secured for this past recruiting class, because we just didn't want them anymore, they weren't good enough, so we cut ties. That's whiffing. Or close enough. As always, if James ends up becoming an excellent RB at ND, well then fantastic. The more the merrier.

 

[Golson5]

We got Nolan James, at the last minute, who was lightly recruited and wasn't initially recruited by ND. After apparently dropping our initial two RB commitments that we had secured for this past recruiting class, because we just didn't want them anymore, they weren't good enough, so we cut ties. That's whiffing. Or close enough. As always, if James ends up becoming an excellent RB at ND, well then fantastic. The more the merrier.

Nolan James was a composite 4 star, not a lightly recruited kid. He dominated his Sr year of HS. We dropped our other 2 because we landed a better one than both. That's not whiffing

 

[echowaker]

We got Nolan James, at the last minute, who was lightly recruited and wasn't initially recruited by ND. After apparently dropping our initial two RB commitments that we had secured for this past recruiting class, because we just didn't want them anymore, they weren't good enough, so we cut ties. That's whiffing. Or close enough. As always, if James ends up becoming an excellent RB at ND, well then fantastic. The more the merrier.

If that's how you see it. Seems like a Chaseball star worshipper take. Because he wasn't initially recruited by ND he's a whiff ? Can't be a late bloomer ? Silly to judge a kid before he gets an opportunity to show his stuff in my opinion.

 

[chaseball]

We got Nolan James, at the last minute, who was lightly recruited and wasn't initially recruited by ND. After apparently dropping our initial two RB commitments that we had secured for this past recruiting class, because we just didn't want them anymore, they weren't good enough, so we cut ties. That's whiffing. Or close enough. As always, if James ends up becoming an excellent RB at ND, well then fantastic. The more the merrier.

Notre Dame has one high 4 star RB commit in like the last 4 cycles--J Love (not including 2026/this commit).

At Notre Dame, with this offensive line, with this university's prestige and resources, that isn't good enough. Osborne is a step in the right direction but there's plenty of room for improvement in terms of talent on the board that is simply choosing more trendier schools.

NDs RB room is overrated due to big stats that the RBs have put up (due to dominant O-line play and a pretty bad schedule). When the competition got stiffer in the playoffs the 2nd and 3rd string RBs production fell off a cliff.

 

[burmafrd1943]

Notre Dame has one high 4 star RB commit in like the last 4 cycles--J Love (not including 2026/this commit).

At Notre Dame, with this offensive line, with this university's prestige and resources, that isn't good enough. Osborne is a step in the right direction but there's plenty of room for improvement in terms of talent on the board that is simply choosing more trendier schools.

NDs RB room is overrated due to big stats that the RBs have put up (due to dominant O-line play and a pretty bad schedule). When the competition got stiffer in the playoffs the 2nd and 3rd string RBs production fell off a cliff.

yawn

 

[Golson5]

Notre Dame has one high 4 star RB commit in like the last 4 cycles--J Love (not including 2026/this commit).

At Notre Dame, with this offensive line, with this university's prestige and resources, that isn't good enough. Osborne is a step in the right direction but there's plenty of room for improvement in terms of talent on the board that is simply choosing more trendier schools.

NDs RB room is overrated due to big stats that the RBs have put up (due to dominant O-line play and a pretty bad schedule). When the competition got stiffer in the playoffs the 2nd and 3rd string RBs production fell off a cliff.

ND has 6 RBs on the roster

All 6 RBs are 4 star recruits. No 3 star on the roster

Oline was beat up this year all season and ND played a good schedule. Also Williams had his best game of the season against PSU.

Love - 79 overall. Said that was a bad ranking. That's why you watch film

Young - 119 overall.

Price - 201 overall.

Williams - 251 overall.

Payne - 285 overall.

James - 301 overall.

No one even close to a 3 star actually.

RB is probably the best room on our team and easily top 3 in the country

 

[Krillis0420]

ND has 6 RBs on the roster

All 6 RBs are 4 star recruits. No 3 star on the roster

Oline was beat up this year all season and ND played a good schedule. Also Williams had his best game of the season against PSU.

Love - 79 overall. Said that was a bad ranking. That's why you watch film

Young - 119 overall.

Price - 201 overall.

Williams - 251 overall.

Payne - 285 overall.

James - 301 overall.

No one even close to a 3 star actually.

RB is probably the best room on our team and easily top 3 in the country

But you already know how he operates he’s going find a positive and turn it into a negative

 

[savvyandsassier]

If that's how you see it. Seems like a Chaseball star worshipper take. Because he wasn't initially recruited by ND he's a whiff ? Can't be a late bloomer ? Silly to judge a kid before he gets an opportunity to show his stuff in my opinion.

Nope, just a pretty casual remark. We were lucky to get Nolan James, who looks pretty good too. I wasn't judging him in the slightest. I made a throwaway remark, alluding to how RB recruiting went a year ago, where it wasn't great. We had two meh commits that were so meh that we actually dropped both, which is noteworthy. And we lucked into James, who seems fine, like a totally legit prospect, and only having to take him away from BC was conducive to our situation. This time we got our first choice guy type guy, who's a consensus elite recruit on all the services. Probably won't be dropping him. That's all I was effin' saying.

 

[sjb75]

But you already know how he operates he’s going find a positive and turn it into a negative

The fact that grown ass men waste their time directly responding with long ass responses to a disingenuous troll boggles my mind.

 

[chaseball]

ND has 6 RBs on the roster

All 6 RBs are 4 star recruits. No 3 star on the roster

Oline was beat up this year all season and ND played a good schedule. Also Williams had his best game of the season against PSU.

Love - 79 overall. Said that was a bad ranking. That's why you watch film

Young - 119 overall.

Price - 201 overall.

Williams - 251 overall.

Payne - 285 overall.

James - 301 overall.

No one even close to a 3 star actually.

RB is probably the best room on our team and easily top 3 in the country

Did you read my post? I feel like you are responding to an argument you made up in your head and not my argument. You listing a slew of RBs in the 200-300 overall range doesn't counter my point--it reinforces it.

Love is the only top 100/high 4* commit dating back to god knows when (again not including next years incoming '26 class) which was the genesis of the argument i was making. The talent has got to get better at the position. Significantly so.

I dont have the inclination to look at the top 5-7 rosters per 247 talent composite and list the overall ratings of their RBs, but that's where ND needs to get to. Especially in a system that relies so much on playmaking in the running game.

The fact that ND hasn't been able to get their picking and choosing of the top 5 RBs in the country every cycle -- given the proficiency of their offensive line -- is pretty ridiculous to me.

Also miss me with the "i said he was underrated" comments. U say that about almost every single guy that commits to ND. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut.