2023 Massachusetts WR Ronan Hanafin receives Notre Dame offer
Cambridge (Mass.) Buckingham Browne & Nichols School wide receiver Ronan Hanafin picked up an offer this weekend from Notre Dame.
Hanafin picked up the offer while on a visit to South Bend, Ind., for the Fighting Irish’s game against Navy.
The offer was Hanafin’s second in as many days. On Saturday, he announced he had received an offer from Pitt. The 6-foot-3 wideout also holds offers from Boston College, Maryland, Nebraska, Penn State, Syracuse, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, UConn and West Virginia.
Hanafin’s quarterback at Buckingham Browne & Nichols School is his brother Shane Hanafin.
Notre Dame has an elite early 2023 recruiting class
There is still plenty of time left in the 2022 recruiting cycle, but the Fighting Irish have done a great job getting a head start in the 2023 class.
Notre Dame has the No. 2 team in the 2023 On3 Consensus Team Recruiting Ranking behind Oklahoma. They have six recruits in the class and all are rated as four-star prospects.
The On3 Consensus — a complete and equally weighted industry-generated average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies — rates Mentor (Ohio) EDGE Brenan Vernon as the top recruit in the class at No. 47 overall.
But according to On3’s evaluators, Tampa Berkeley Prep EDGE Keon Keeley is the top recruit in he Notre Dame class.
On3 considers Keeley a five-star recruit and the No. 5 player in the 2023 On300 rankings.
After watching Keeley play against 2023 No. 1 overall recruit Arch Manning, On3 Director of Scouting and Rankings Charles Power had high praise for the elite athlete.
“We saw Keeley’s considerable ability on display last week in a nationally-televised game against Arch Manning,” Power said. “He pairs exceptional length with plus athleticism and flexibility to create a bunch of problems off the edge. Keeley is having a phenomenal junior year as well with 12.5 sacks and 23.5 tackles for loss. He was compared to Kayvon Thibodeaux during the ESPN broadcast and I can see the resemblance from a dimensions and coordination perspective.”