OC/QB: Tommy Rees - Recruited Pyne, Buchner, and Angeli in 3 straight classes which is solid (although ND's QB position sells itself so doesn't exactly blow me away). If he lands Nico or Dante in 2023 then that would look very good. Think he's growing as a play caller and I like the idea of a longer term OC at ND with him there.
RB: Lance Taylor - Recruited Tyree, Estime, Diggs, Price, and Irvin so far. Has definitely jumped up the RB recruiting and the position itself seems deep and talented despite the offensive line deficiencies.
WR: Del Alexander - Amazing what an actual season will do where people were calling for his head earlier this offseason. The WR's look okay, Austin looks good and Lenzy is fast and hopefully can hang onto the ball. Recruiting has definitely picked up. The last 3 classes he's had 5* Johnson, 4* Watts, 3* Brunelle, 4* Colzie, 4* Styles, 4* Thomas, 4* CJ Williams, 4* Meriweather and 3* Walker. He's definitely stepped up as a recruiter and has been bringing in some actual talent compared to the KAR/Cam Hart days of old. If he keeps recruiting like this and hopefully the youngsters develop then he'll be on the good side of many fans I believe
TE: John McNulty - Another position group that's hard to judge with recruiting because it sort of sells itself. McNulty hasn't had any noticeable drop off in recruiting though which is great because from a coaching perspective I love his coaching acumen as a TE coach. Dude has coached in the NFL, at OC, QB, WR, and TE for many years and helped develop some of the best in the game. I think he's doing great work with the TE's and think after Mayer they'll be alright with Bauman, Berrong, Evans, Staes, Raridon, and Flanagan.
OL: Jeff Quinn - He's obviously the guy I'm starting to have a problem with. It just doesn't work to be a better recruiter than Harry Hiestand at this point and while I've loved what he's done to the position group in terms of recruiting the very best and getting some elite talent I'd rather go with a worse recruiter and better coach. Shouldn't be hard for ND to actually find a guy who's good at both and I think they will this offseason barring some major development with the OLine when Fisher hopefully returns. See Tanona, Chan and Craig honestly are not crazy recruiting wins by ND and Jeff Quinn this cycle because I think if Hiestand is the coach or someone else they would land all 3 or maybe some similar iteration of recruits.
Football Outsiders Offensive Line Rankings Going Back to 2014 (Out of 65 Power 5 Teams)
Quinn
2021: Aren't released until Week 5-6 of the year I believe but imagine it'll be terrible
2020: 14th
2019: 23rd
2018: 51st
Hiestand
2017: 6th
2016: 21st
2015: 18th
2014: 19th
