Four-Star Safety Ivan Taylor commits to Notre Dame
Four-star safety Ivan Taylor of Winter Garden (FL) West Orange High announced his commitment to Notre Dame Friday afternoon.
The 6-foot, 175 pounder chose the Fighting Irish over Florida State, USC, and Michigan.
“What stood out about Notre Dame was the coaching and communication. The coaches and I would talk everyday not even about football but about everyday things. They treat me as a priority all the time even when I wasn’t committed. They were saying this was a joke from the jump Coach o’Leary and I from the Irish invasion, like he told me what I needed to work and we were just talking the whole time. Then after that started talking to Coach Freeman everyday and the relationship started becoming not evening like Coaches but a friend’s relationship. Chad played a huge part in just always making sure if I needed something to call him up or to go on the walk, just little things like that they did very well.”
His relationship with the coaching staff and their plan for him played a role in his decision as well.
“I would say I’m close to all the coaches pretty well. And have a good connection with them. Coach O Leary definitely is communicating and growing. Either at nickel or safety just being able to make plays and fly around and have fun.”
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The Sunshine State safety joins coach Marcus Freeman and the Fighting Irish’s top 5 2025 class. He is accompanied by four-star QB Deuce Knight and others.
Ivan Taylor Recruiting Profile
Taylor ranks as the No. 98 player in the On3 Industry Ranking, a weighted average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies. He also tabs in as the No. 10 safety and the No. 16 player in Florida.
He currently does not have an On3 NIL Valuation publicly listed. 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.