It hadn’t even been two weeks since he visited and subsequently committed to Michigan football, but there he was, back on campus again — this time hunting rather than being the hunted.
2026 Chicago (Ill.) Simeon four-star edge rusher McHale Blade was thought to be a Notre Dame lean, but he shocked the world when he wound up choosing to be in Ann Arbor over South Bend on June 9. Blade took his official visit from June 6-8, but he made it back to campus on June 20 for Victors Weekend — the recruiting event that had the entire committed class in tow, along with several key top targets remaining on the board.
So what was it like for Blade to come back to campus, but as a commit this time? He says he felt ‘at home’ and that it was a bit more of a relaxing experience.
But that doesn’t mean that he relaxed. In fact, he was in Ann Arbor to be a sniper, working every room he was in.
“I knew a lot of the recruits from just previous visits, so I was kind of just there to kind of hang out with the guys and stuff like that,” Blade said. “But yeah, I was really there to help recruit and talk to the guys, and it was pretty cool, hanging out with a lot of the D-linemen there. Titan (Davis) and Carter Meadows and all of those guys that I got to hang out with, so it was pretty cool.”
Who Blade is recruiting and his pitch
If Blade was on campus actively recruiting, then he’s got one in the bag, with 2026 St. Louis (Mo.) DeSmet four-star defensive tackle Titan Davis having committed on Monday. But there’s another prospect he was with during the weekend that he’d really like to join the class in Washington (D.C.) Gonzaga five-star EDGE Carter Meadows, and Blade says that he’s about to start working on Mineral (Va.) Louisa County five-star running back Savion Hiter, too.
“Obviously, Titan just committed, but I kind of already knew that from…
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