out of your list, Kiel was the only top Kelly recruit

Crist was a Weis signee

Zaire, Kizer, and Jurkovec weren't top recruits, there's only about 2-4 top QB prospects a year, i think the last top QB prospect that visited was Eason like 6 years ago and

It seems like after all the effort with Kyle Allen, Kelly tired of recruiting top prospects and went with the mutual interest angle. Then the next year after the Blake Barnett mess just didn't care enough to recruit them from that point and just goes with good prospects that show up at ND camps instead of going after the top guys. So he's content with a Angeli, Buchner, and Pyne instead of top guys.