A By The Numbers look at the 2025 Notre Dame recruiting class

The fax machines have gone quiet, Notre Dame’s 25 recruits are signed, and it’s top-15 recruiting class is gathered.

National Signing Day isn’t what it used to be with the transfer portal providing a convenient trap door for these players to someday depart. 

But for now, the Fighting Irish coaches must be pleased that this class — which currently ranks as the 12th best in the country — only had one 11th-hour surprise, and that was a pleasant one with 4-star linebacker Madden Faraimo pledging his services to Notre Dame.

Here’s a By The Numbers look at the 2025 Fighting Irish recruiting haul.

All rankings are based on the On3 Industry Composite that combines ratings from all of the major online recruiting services.

2—Number of top-100 recruits signed in this class, marking a drop-off from last season when the Irish welcomed in five.

The five top-100 players last season were the most signed in a single class in 10 recruiting cycles.

The lone five-star for the Irish this class — offensive tackle Will Black from Choate Rosemary Hall (Wallingford, Conn.) and the aforementioned Faraimo — are the two top-100 players in the group.

Before Faraimo committed, Notre Dame looked on pace to land only one top-100 player, which would’ve been the fewest in a single cycle since 2005 when wide receiver D.J. Hord was the lone top-100 player from the first recruiting class former head coach Charlie Weis put together.

4—A balanced class based on unit distribution, four is the most players signed at any one position for Notre Dame.

Looking to bolster their front lines and their defensive secondary, the Irish coaches inked four defensive linemen, four offensive linemen, three safeties and three cornerbacks in this class. 

On the flip side, Notre Dame brought in only one player at tight end, athlete, running back, quarterback and kicker.

This class includes 14 defensive players, 9 offensive players, 1 athlete and 1 kicker. 

10 —The number of top-300 players signed in the 2025 class, also a slip from the first two recruiting hauls Irish head coach Marcus Freeman and Co. put together in 2022 and 2023.

Highlighted by these top-50 players: offensive tackle Guerby Lambert, linebacker Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asa, and wide receiver Cam Williams, the Irish landed 11 top-300 recruits in 2024.

And led by five-star offensive tackle Charles Jagusah and high four-star running back Jeremiyah Love, the 2023 recruiting class featured a robust 16 top-300 players. 

This year’s 10-player group of top-300 players includes three offensive linemen, two cornerbacks, and one each from edge, tight end, linebacker, safety and athlete. 

13—The number of states represented in this year’s recruiting class, including five states that each provided three players — Connecticut, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and New Jersey. 

This isn’t necessarily the list of states you’d immediately think of that actually delivered 60 percent of this 2025 recruiting class.

Georgia and Florida each provided two players, to round out the seven states that supplied multiple recruits. 

The average distance from which the 25 recruits come from is 688.7 miles. 

Linebacker Ko’o Kia from Punahou High School (Honolulu, Hawaii) is the farthest at 4,318 miles. 

Safety Brandon Logan from Snider High School (Fort Wayne, Ind.) is the closest at 91 miles.

56—Notre Dame’s blue-chip percentage ratio with its 2025 recruiting class, a respectable mark, but not an elite one.

The blue-chip ratio measures the amount of four- and five-star recruits in proportion to the total number of recruits in a class. 

This marks the lowest percentage in the last four cycles and the second lowest in the last six recruiting cycles for the Irish, who feature Black as the only five star and 13 four-star players. 

Notre Dame ranks 15th nationally in blue-chip ratio. It also rated 15th in 2024 (56.5), fifth in 2023 (78.3) and fifth (77.3) and in 2022.