Ohio Safety Taebron Bennie-Powell Commits To Notre Dame
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Notre Dame received a commitment from West Chester (Ohio) Lakota West safety Taebron Bennie-Powell. Things escalated quickly after the 2024 Ohio defender worked out at Thursday's evaluation camp, which concluded with him landing an offer from the Irish staff.
The 6-1, 170-pound defensive back was the teammate of 2023 Notre Dame safety signee Ben Minich. Playing with both Minich and Ohio State safety signee Malik Hartford, Bennie-Powell played more of a rover and outside linebacker role for the talented Lakota West squad as a junior. He is expected to take over at one of those two deep safety positions for his senior season.
Safety is a very important position for Notre Dame in the 2024 class after missing out on the position completely in 2022 and landing only two safeties a season ago with the 2023 class. Bennie-Powell is the second safety to jump in the Notre Dame class, joining Arizona standout Kennedy Urlacher.
There is a lot of projection with this commitment, and Notre Dame is trusting their camp evaluation of him. Bennie-Powell has very little film of his dropping into coverage as a safety due to him playing on the first and second level in 2022. Notre Dame is banking on him being able to make the transition to the back end, and he'll have his entire senior season to adjust to playing deep safety.
Bennie-Powell is currently rated as a three-star recruit by On3, 247Sports and Rivals. The latter has him pegged the highest, currently sitting as the No. 31 player in the state of Ohio.
The Buckeye State native has begun pulling in more offers recently. On top of that recent offer from the Fighting Irish, Bennie-Powell has also been offered by Pittsburgh, Kentucky, Duke, West Virginia and several MAC schools.
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