WATCH: The Notre Dame recruiting update with Singer and Kelly (April 5)
In a weekly YouTube live show at Blue & Gold, recruiting writers Kyle Kelly and Mike Singer give the latest on Notre Dame’s recruiting efforts.
The show begins with the fellas discussing some of the most notable prospects who visited Notre Dame during the week. How did things go with those prospects and where do things stand? Afterwards, private quarterbacks coach Baylin Trujillo — who trains 2026 quarterbacks and Irish targets Brady Hart and Noah Grubbs — joins the show to discuss his start pupils. Note: There are technical difficulties during the Trujillo interview.
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Four-star QB Brady Hart recaps ‘unbelievable’ Notre Dame visit
Cocoa (Fla.) High’s Brady Hart, the No. 110 overall player and No. 9 quarterback nationally per the 2026 On3 Industry Ranking, took his long-awaited Notre Dame visit this week. The four-star quarterback arrived to town Tuesday night, had a full visit experience Wednesday and flew back to the Sunshine State Thursday morning.
It was a jam-packed day for Hart, who sat in on meetings, watched practice, had one-on-one chats with strength coach Loren Landow, quarterbacks coach Gino Guidugli, head coach Marcus Freeman, had dinner with the coaches and more.
“It was the whole package,” Hart told Blue & Gold Wednesday evening. “It was an unbelievable visit.”
One moment sticks out to the 6-5, 185-pounder as his favorite part of the trip.
“Walking out on the field and standing on the 50-yard line was pretty surreal,” Hart noted. “I grew up watching Notre Dame football. Even though I was a Gator fan growing up, you still watch Notre Dame football because it’s Notre Dame. It means something. It was special to walk out on the field.”
Quarterback recruiting in the 2026 class is heating up for Notre Dame, and Hart is certainly a top name to know for the Irish. The staff would love to have Hart as its signal-caller of the class, and they made their pitch to him Wednesday.
“They talk about how I’m wired,” Hart explained. “They said that Notre Dame fits not only as a player but as a person. I’d surround myself with guys who are wired like me, and that’s huge to me — being in a culture with guys who I’m like and have the same goals as me. Guys who are not going there just because they want to play football but because they want to better themselves and get a good education. It was pretty cool talking to them about that.”
