By The Numbers: Notre Dame’s 2016 Football Recruiting

1 Five-star player signed by the Irish, Michigan linebacker Daelin Hayes — who actually started only seven games during his three-year high school varsity career. As a sophomore, he suffered a season-ending left shoulder injury a few plays into his first game. As a junior in California, a custody battle led him to play only three games before he had to return to Michigan. This past season, Hayes injured his right shoulder in game three and didn’t play again.

3 Different Catholic schools attended by all three Notre Dame offensive line recruits, all of whom were on MaxPreps’ first two All-America teams: tackles Tommy Kraemer (Cincinnati Elder) and Liam Eichenberg (Cleveland St. Ignatius) and guard Parker Boudreaux (Orlando [Fla.] Bishop Moore).

5 Teams in USA Today’s final 15 this season who had Notre Dame players represented: No. 4 IMG Academy (running back Tony Jones Jr. and safety Spencer Perry), No. 7 Centennial (wide receiver Javon McKinley), No. 11 St. John Bosco (safety D.J. Morgan), No. 14 Aquinas Institute (outside linebacker Jamir Jones) and No. 15 Loyola Academy (long snapper John Shannon).

7 Recruits from Florida, tying it with the 1987 haul for the most Notre Dame ever signed from there in one campaign: running back Tony Jones Jr. and safety Spencer Perry (Bradenton), running back Deon McIntosh (Fort Lauderdale), wide receiver Kevin Stepherson (Jacksonville), offensive guard Parker Boudreaux and linebacker Jonathan Jones (Orlando), and safety Devin Studstill (Palm Beach Gardens). Perry’s family actually lives in Georgia, but he played in Florida. The 1987 group was led by center Mike Heldt. The 1990 class signed six, featuring cornerback Tom Carter and quarterback Kevin McDougal.

7-0 Advantage for Notre Dame in number of recruits who decommitted from other schools to the Irish: quarterback Ian Book (Washington State), defensive ends Khalid Kareem (Alabama) and Ade Ogundeji (Western Michigan), linebacker Daelin Hayes (USC), safeties D.J. Morgan (Arizona State) and Spencer Perry (Florida), and cornerback Troy Pride Jr. (Virginia Tech). This also marked the first time in Brian Kelly’s seven recruiting seasons that a player did not switch to another school after originally pledging to Notre Dame. It is the first time it didn’t happen to the Irish since 2006.

14 Aggregate ranking of Notre Dame among the four major football recruiting services for its 23-man recruiting class, with none higher than 12th or lower than 16th. Rivals ranked the Fighting Irish No. 12, followed by Scout at No. 13, 247Sports No. 15 and ESPN No. 16. Signing Georgia star athlete Demetris Robertson in the next week or so could inch them into the top 10.

22 Years since Notre Dame has signed a football player from Canada, linebacker Bill Mitoulas in 1994. Wide receiver Chase Claypool, from British Columbia, ended that streak this season. He could become the eighth Canadian to earn a football monogram, with former 1995-2000 athletics director Mike Wadsworth among them.

26-2 Record that cornerback Julian Love’s Nazareth Academy team compiled in 2014 (14-0) and 2015 (12-2) while winning consecutive Class 5A championships in Illinois.

219 Pounds that running back Tony Jones Jr. weighs. He is the largest back to sign with the Irish since Kelly’s first year in 2010, when Cam Roberson checked in at 6-1, 220. A knee injury ended Roberson’s career the next year.

1990 The last year we can recall Notre Dame signing seven defensive back prospects like it did this season. That 1990 haul included two first-round picks in Tom Carter (after junior season) and Jeff Burris, plus two other future NFL players in John Covington and Willie Clark.

3,596 Career yards receiving (at 20.7 yards per catch) by California’s Javon McKinley, the most we can ever recall by an incoming Notre Dame player. Michael Floyd had 2,487 his last two years of high school. McKinley’s total is the third most in CIF Southern Section history.