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Key Notre Dame football legacy recruiting target names his top six schools
One of Notre Dame football’s top recruiting targets in the 2025 class has adjusted his recruitment. About three months after Nathaniel Owusu-Boateng revealed his top five schools, the Bradenton (Fla.) IMG Academy four-star linebacker collaborated with On3’s Hayes Fawcett to announce a top six on Monday.
The 6-foot-0½, 200-pound Owusu-Boateng added Texas to a top schools list that already included Notre Dame, Florida, Michigan, Ohio State and Southern California. Following the official release of his top schools, he posted on social media that a “commitment date is coming soon.”
According to the On3 Industry Ranking — a proprietary algorithm that compiles ratings and rankings from all four primary recruiting media services — Owusu-Boateng is the No. 13 prospect in Florida, and theNo. 6 linebacker and No. 84 overall player nationally in the 2025 class.
Owusu-Boateng is the younger half-brother of former Fighting Irish linebacker Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah. The elder Owusu won the Butkus Award with Notre Dame in 2020. He went on to get drafted in the second round by the Cleveland Browns in 2021.
Owusu-Koramoah attended part of Owusu-Boateng’s official visit to South Bend on the weekend of June 8. That was Owusu-Boateng’s second time on campus despite his brother playing four years for the Irish. Owusu-Boateng’s first visit was on Jan. 20 for Notre Dame football’s junior day recruiting event.
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Where Notre Dame football stands for four-star LB recruit Nathaniel Owusu-Boateng
The Irish are one of three schools who expect to host him on campus for a game this season. He plans to return to South Bend on Nov. 9, when Notre Dame faces Florida State.
On Saturday, Michigan should have Owusu-Boateng in the stands when it welcomes Southern Cal to town. It will mark his third time in Ann Arbor after unofficially visiting in April and again for an official visit the third week of June.
Owusu-Boateng is also slated to visit Texas for the first time when it takes on Georgia on Oct. 19. That trip will be an official visit.
Florida has welcomed him to its campus seven times, more than any other school. He was last in Gainesville, Fla., when the Gators played the Miami Hurricanes on Aug. 31. Owusu-Boateng has also visited Ohio State three times, including for an official visit the weekend of June 15.
The Irish have the On3 Industry Ranking’s No. 27 and 50 linebackers in the 2025 class verbally committed in Anthony Sacca and Ko’o Kia. Philadelphia St. Joseph’s Prep Sacca is a four-star, while Honolulu Punahou’s Kia is a three-star.
