Notre Dame lands 2026 four-star running back Jonaz Walton!

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Ryan Roberts breaks down the commitment of 2026 four-star running back Jonaz Walton to the Notre Dame Fighting Irish!

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00:00Notre Dame recruiting is on fire in the 2026 class.

00:03Jones, Walton, star running back out of Georgia, commits to the Irish,

00:07creating maybe the best running back duo in a long, long time.

00:12Let's talk about it.

00:16Ryan Roberts from A to Z Sports, breaking down everything Notre Dame football.

00:20Folks, if you haven't been watching,

00:22Notre Dame is on a crazy recruiting tear in the 2026 class.

00:27They just got another one, 2026, Carrollton, Georgia,

00:32Central High School, running back.

00:34Jones, Walton has committed to the fighting Irish,

00:37beating a long, long, long, long offer list.

00:39That includes the likes of Alabama and Georgia, 5'9", 205 pounds,

00:4510'6", in the 100 meters.

00:47And now you get to combine him with Javion Osborne,

00:50who is very stylistically different,

00:52which I think makes this duo a potentially imposing one

00:56on the next level.

00:57Just bringing down Walton for a second.

00:59Over 1,300 yards as a junior in 2024.

01:03Over 600 receiving yards.

01:04Also average over 38 yards per kickoff return.

01:07He's more of a straight line, downhill runner with a ton of speed,

01:11which is a great pairing with Osborne,

01:13because Osborne is much more of your cat quick,

01:16lateral, explosive, jump cut type of back.

01:19Those two are going to work wonders off of one another,

01:22become a dynamic two-man punch for Notre Dame

01:25in the running back room for the foreseeable future.

01:29Now Walton, who I think is, I'll describe as a bowling ball of a runner.

01:34I think that this, again, continues this chain reaction

01:37that we're going to go see over the next couple weeks.

01:40Notre Dame recruiting is far from done.

01:42Tiki Hola, you got recently.

01:44Jacoby Clapper, Rodney Dunham, Ebenezer Ewutade.

01:48It is only going to continue into the future,

01:51and Jones Walton is just the latest huge recruiting win

01:54for running back coach Jawan Sider since coming over from Penn State.

02:00Folks, if you haven't seen this young man on film,

02:03I ask you, please, just go do it.

02:05Not only is he dominating in the state of Georgia,

02:06which is huge for Notre Dame,

02:08another conversation point to this is that Notre Dame has been wanting

02:11to be more effective and consistent in recruiting the state of Georgia.

02:16There is a competition out there.

02:18What is the better state in developing great recruits?

02:21Usually names that we come up with are Texas, Florida, California to a degree,

02:26but Georgia over the last few years per capita has been fantastic

02:29when developing great recruits and great college football players.

02:34I think Jones Walton is just the latest.

02:35This one is a testament to Coach Sider because when Notre Dame first hired him

02:41after Dillon McCullough left for the Las Vegas Raiders this offseason,

02:44I would say they were running probably second, third,

02:48somewhere in that ballpark for Javion Osborne, the star running back out of Texas.

02:51They were in a probably arguably better position with Jones Walton,

02:55but a lot of closing had to be done here.

02:57This was not an easy recruitment for Jawan Sider,

03:00and he honestly could have come in and he could have bungled this one a little bit,

03:04and you could have went 0 for 2 on the top targets on the board for Notre Dame.

03:08We knew that these were the guys that Notre Dame really wanted,

03:11and hats off to Coach Sider.

03:12He got the job done.

03:14After we finish watching the huddle highlights, come back to this YouTube channel.

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