One of the Tigers’ top-ranked pledges in the Class of 2025 has flipped his commitment and chosen to stay closer to home.
Jayvan Boggs, a four-star wide receiver who originally committed to Missouri football’s next class last month, decommitted from MU late Tuesday evening and instead has chosen to play his football at UCF, per a report from On3’s Hayes Fawcett.
Boggs is from Cocoa, Florida, which is nearby to the second-year Big 12 school led by Gus Malzahn, who Missouri coach Eli Drinkwitz worked with as an assistant at Auburn and Arkansas State.
The wide receiver is ranked as the No. 211 player in the country and the No. 23 wide receiver in his class, per the recruiting service 247Sports’ composite rankings.
Boggs originally committed to Mizzou on July 4, kicking off one of the better recruiting streaks in Missouri history. The Tigers landed five highly ranked prospects in the space of a week after that, taking their class as high as the No. 11-ranked group in the nation.
After Boggs’ flip to UCF — making him the highest-ranked recruit in UCF history, per Rivals — Mizzou now ranks No. 16 in 247Sports’ national team rankings. The Tigers have 16 players still committed, with an average star ranking that puts them eighth in the now-16-team SEC.
Early pledges should often be taken with a dose of skepticism: Verbal commitments are free to move until they put pen to paper during the early national signing period, which will open Dec. 4 this year.
The Tigers still have two high-pedigree receivers committed in their Class of 2025.
Donovan Olugbode, who is a top-100 national recruit and committed the day after Boggs, is a four-star receiver originally out of Illinois who is about to begin his senior season on a national schedule with Florida-based IMG Academy. Ironton, Ohio native Shaun Terry, a three-star prospect, also is pledged to MU.
The Tigers are expected to lose star wide receiver Luther Burden III to an early NFL Draft declaration at the end of the 2024 season, as he is tipped as a top-10 overall pick. Standouts Theo Wease Jr. and Mookie Cooper are entering their respective final years of eligibility.
That leaves the potential for six scholarship wide receivers to return to Mizzou next season: Marquis Johnson; Mekhi Miller; Daniel Blood; Joshua Manning; Courtney Crutchfield; and James Madison II.
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![Cocoa's Jayvan Boggs (88) hauls in a reception for a touchdown score as Bradford's Gavin Cook (3) can't catch him during the third quarter of a FHSAA Class 2S state semifinal matchup at Bradford High School in Starke. The Cocoa Tigers outlasted the Bradford Tornadoes 31-21. [Corey Perrine/Florida Times-Union]](https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/ovPqwT7mg01LWvkys2cbBQ--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTY0MA--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/columbia-daily-tribune/5a385ea581b7be7511a00b0276d6352e)
This article originally appeared on Columbia Daily Tribune: Missouri football’s Class of ’25 takes hit as 4-star wideout flips to UCF
