Name: TAHJE HARTLEY School: Morgan Park High School – Morgan Park, IL (Coach Wesley Yates) Vitals: LB (#10). 6’2″ – 205. Offers: D2 Offers. Hartley was a late commit to UND, we believe only a few days before signing day. He was originally committed to Wayne State before UND offered him. Hartley is teammates with fellow…
Name: JONATHAN HARRIS School: Morgan Park High School – Morgan Park, IL (Coach Wesley Yates) Vitals: NG (#52). 6’2″ – 270. Offers: D2 Offers. We project Harris as a nose guard in UND’s 3-4 scheme. Harris is a well-built, stout kid who has the perfect body type to play NG. He has very quick feet and…
Now that the crazy, whirlwind recruiting season is behind us for another year we thought we would do a recap of the group and give our opinions and whatever else comes up. This year was even more condensed and accelerated than normal.. UND ended up signing 27 total players, including preferred walk-ons. For all of…
Name: AUSTIN CIESLAK School: Hazen High School – Hazen, ND (Coach Rick Philion) Vitals: FB-TE (#77). 6’3″ – 250. Offers: D2 Offers. Cieslak is a bit of an unknown to us as he does not have any Hudl highlights or much information about him. We do know that he is a very good athlete for his…
Name: BRANDON DRANKA School: Huntley High School – Huntley, IL (Coach John Hart) Vitals: Defensive End (#9). 6’2″ – 235. Offers: Various D2 Offers It is obvious after watching Dranka on tape that he is an explosive athlete and has a little “horsepower” under the hood. Being 6’2″, he will have to learn the proper techniques…
Name: BRANDON WALKER School: Carman-Ainsworth High School – Flint, MI (Coach Nathaniel Williams) Vitals: Wide Receiver (#8). 6’1″ – 180. Offers: Kent State, Austin Peay, Robert Morris, multiple D2 Offers in MI. Walker comes to UND from one of the top high school programs in the state of Michigan. Carman-Ainsworth went 11-2 this past fall in…
Name: ADAM STINER School: Verona High School – Verona, WI (Dave Richardson) Vitals: Offensive Tackle(#59). 6’5″ – 270 lbs Offers: SDSU, Western Illinois Adam Stiner is an athletic offensive lineman who has great feet and is able to get out on to the perimeter and downfield when asked to. He also shows great drive after…
The UND Football program heads in to their last recruiting weekend with some nice momentum coming off two successful weekends that saw them snag 12 commitments. To date, they currently have 15 confirmed commits with one (Jonathan Harris) unconfirmed, but likely. There is a bunch of talent in this weekend’s group. If all goes well…
Name: REID TAUBENHEIM School: Farmington High School – Farmington, MN (Coach Mark Froehling) Vitals: Kicker (#4). 6’0″ – 180. Offers: PWO at Wisconsin and Minnesota Taubenheim is a left-footed kicker extraordinaire. He was First-Team All-Metro in Minneapolis and First-Team All-State in Minnesota. Last season he had 22 touchbacks on kickoff’s in 24 attempts, not bad. On…
Name: LUKE FIEDLER School: Freedom High School – Orlando, FL (Coach Jeffrey Higgins) Vitals: Tight End (#34). 6’5″ – 215. Offers: None known At Freedom, Fiedler was a tight end and wide receiver for the Patriots and also played defensive end, where he had six sacks in his senior season. On offense, Fielder had 20 receptions for…
