Former Duke QB Riley Leonard commits to Notre Dame

Former Duke QB Riley Leonard has committed to Notre Dame, sources tell On3. Leonard made his announcement official on Instagram Tuesday morning.

The 6’4 215 QB threw for 4,450 yards and 24 TDs and added 1,224 yards and 19 scores running in his three years at Duke.

According to the On3 Industry Transfer Portal Rankings, Leonard is ranked as the No. 11 Player and the No. 6 QB.

Notre Dame has found success in the transfer portal this offseason, as coach Marcus Freeman and company have landed former Clemson WR Beaux Collins, former FIU WR Kris Mitchell, and others.

Riley Leonard Recruiting Profile

Leonard ranked as the No. 554 player in the 2021 On3 Industry Ranking, a weighted average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies. He also tabs in as the No. 41 quarterback and the No. 21 player in the state of Alabama.

Transfer portal background information

The NCAA Transfer Portal, which covers every NCAA sport at the Division I, II and III levels, is a private database with names of student-athletes who wish to transfer. It is not accessible to the public.

The process of entering the portal is done through a school’s compliance office. Once a player provides written notification of an intent to transfer, the office enters the player’s name in the database and everything is off and running. The compliance office has 48 hours to comply with the player’s request and that request cannot be refused.

Once a player’s name shows up in the portal, other schools can contact the player. Players can change their minds at any point and withdraw from the portal. However, once a player enters the portal, the current scholarship no longer has to be honored. In other words, if a player enters the portal but decides to stay, the school is not obligated to provide a scholarship anymore.

The database is a normal database, sortable by a variety of topics, including (of course) sport and name. A player’s individual entry includes basic details such as contact info, whether the player was on scholarship and whether the player is transferring as a graduate student.

A player can ask that a “do not contact” tag be placed on the report. In those instances, the players don’t want to be contacted by schools unless they’ve initiated the communication.

He currently has an On3 NIL Valuation of $653K. The On3 NIL Valuation is the industry’s leading index that sets high school and college athletes’ projected annual value (PAV). The NIL valuation does not act as a tracker of the value of NIL deals an athlete has completed to date. It rather signifies an athlete’s value at a certain moment in time.