Notre Dame has found its next running back.

Orlando (Fla.) West Orange four-star running back Dexter Williams signed with Notre Dame on Wednesday, picking the Irish over his other finalists, Miami and Louisville.

Williams — the No. 21 prospect in Florida, and the nation's No. 12 ranked running back and No. 120 player in the country — fills an immediate need for Notre Dame.

The Irish had spent the better part of the past three months looking for another running back in its 2015 recruiting class to complement Josh Adams, but continued to strike out on high-profile targets.

That, however, wasn't the case with Williams.

Notre Dame recruiting coordinator Tony Alford made Williams a priority, and did just about everything he could to make sure that he would ink with the Irish when it was time to put pen to paper.

Alford flew to Orlando on the first day of the contact period and spent two hours with Williams at his high school before escorting him to South Bend on the same flight for an official visit.

It was a crafty recruiting maneuver, but one that delivered Notre Dame one the most explosive running backs in the country.

Williams posted a 131.17 SPARQ score last spring, which was the 14th highest number in the nation in a test that measures overall athletic ability.

The 6-0, 189-pound Williams ran a 4.57 electric-timed 40-yard dash and had a 44.5-inch vertical jump.

On the field, he ran for 871 yards and 10 touchdowns this past season for a team that went 11-1 and had its best season in school history. He was named an honorable mention for the Orlando Sentinel's All-Central Florida Football Team.

Williams becomes the third running back from the state of Florida to sign with Notre Dame in the last three years. He spent a majority of the time on his official visit with host Greg Bryant and Tarean Folston, who were last two running backs to ink with the Irish out of the Sunshine State.

Alford — who will get credit form Williams' recruitment — began to put the full-court press on the talented back after McKinney (Texas) North four-star running back Ronald Jones committed to USC on Jan. 2.

Just a mere 54 minutes after Jones announced his commitment live on national TV, Williams tweeted out that he was opening back up his recruitment.

"I am officially decommitting from the The U," Williams wrote. "Thanks for everything."

Four weeks later, Williams found his home despite another push from the local Hurricanes.

While it won't go down in the books as a flip for the Irish, Williams becomes the sixth player in the Notre Dame 2015 recruiting class that was at one time committed to another school.

He joins four-star quarterback Brandon Wimbush (Penn State), four-star tight end Aliz'e Jones (UCLA), four-star linebacker Josh Barajas (Penn State), four-star cornerback Shaun Crawford (Michigan) and three-star cornerback Ashton White (Virginia Tech).

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