Notre Dame flips dual-threat 4-star QB Blake Hebert from Clemson - ESPN

Notre Dame landed a commitment from four-star quarterback Blake Hebert on Monday, flipping the longtime Clemson pledge and securing a quarterback for the Irish's 2025 class less than two weeks after Deuce Knight's seismic flip to Auburn.

Hebert, ESPN's No. 6 dual-threat passer in 2025, announced his decommitment from Clemson via X before giving his pledge to Notre Dame minutes later Monday evening.

Hebert, a 6-foot-3, 215-pound quarterback from Greenwich, Connecticut, had been committed to Dabo Swinney and the Tigers since June 16, 2023. With his recruitment closed, Hebert took a pair of trips to Clemson earlier this year, most recently on an official visit in May.

Yet the quarterback landscape in the 2025 cycle shifted when Knight, ESPN's No. 2 dual-threat quarterback, pulled his pledge from Notre Dame on Oct. 2 and committed to Auburn, ending a lengthy recruiting saga that began in the summer. The Irish were aggressive in their pursuit to land another 2025 quarterback following Knight's departure, and Marcus Freeman & Co. found one in Hebert, now bound for South Bend, Indiana, through a late-cycle recruitment led by Notre Dame quarterbacks coach and pass game coordinator Gino Guidugli.

«I'd like to start by thanking the Clemson coaching staff as well as the program itself for all they have done for me,» Hebert wrote on X minutes before announcing his pledge to the Irish. «With that being said, I have chosen to withdraw my commitment and will spend my next 4 years at another institution.»

Hebert missed nearly all of his junior season at Connecticut's Brunswick School after he suffered an ankle fracture in the program's season opener last fall. As a first-year starter in his sophomore season in 2022, Hebert completed