NLI ALERT: Giovanni Bernard, Running Back

Largely considered to be the second-best recruit in this UNC class behind early enrollee and high school All-American James Hurst (more on Hurst and the rest of the early enrollment class later on today), running back Giovanni Bernard has sent in his NLI to the Tar Heels.

Bernard, a 4-star back from power Saint Aquinas High School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has had a very interesting recruitment in the last few weeks. He had committed to play for Charlie Weis at Notre Dame, only to discover once the season was over that Weis was not going to be retained by the school. When Brian Kelly brought his spread offense from Cincinnati with him to South Bend, Bernard opened up his recruitment, but always seemed focused on the Tar Heels. “Really it was just something that I had in my head and I was just like '[UNC] is right for me,'” Bernard said.

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Bernard makes 9 NLIs for the Tar Heels at this point in the morning, and you can guarantee that more are definitely on the way. Keep it locked on H2TheBSOfA for breaking news and analysis all day on National Signing Day.