There were far more pessimistic responses to Notre Dame’s signing of 22 recruits in the class of 2019 than there were glass half-full assessments. To quote one of the former, hardly an outlier, “Seems what we’ve got here is a lot of ‘program-maintaining guys. … [It] cannot be denied that there are no true game changers in this class.”
If limiting “game changers” to skill position players, that appears to be true. The Irish did not pull in any top-flight recruits at the traditional offensive skill positions. However, narrowing one’s focus to that select grouping misses most of a football game.