COLUMBIA, Mo. 鈥 Welcome to the dog days of football recruiting.
Recruiting classes for 2025 are, depending on your philosophy, hovering around half-full or half-empty. Official visits have wrapped up, and verbal commitments are still flowing for Missouri.
Coach Eli Drinkwitz picked up two more commits around another weekend of official visits to Columbia.
Wide receiver Shaun Terry committed to Mizzou a couple of weeks after taking his visit to the school. The three-star wideout from Ironton, Ohio, visited Michigan after his weekend with the Tigers but chose black and gold not long after.
Terry was verbally committed to Notre Dame until the start of June, which kicked off interest in Missouri. He鈥檚 considered one of the top 20 recruits in Ohio by most recruiting services.
His high school highlights show a distinct ability to pick up yards after the catch, with a handful of screen plays and short passes turning into broken tackles and long gains.
Cornerback Mark Manfred also verbally committed to MU after an official visit. The three-star recruit made the Tigers the last stop on his swing of visits and committed almost immediately thereafter.
Manfred also took official visits to Mississippi, Miami and Cincinnati.
Hailing from Marietta, Georgia, Manfred stands 6-foot-3, bringing some size to the secondary. He has also played wide receiver in high school.
Their commitments bring Missouri’s 2025 haul to 12 recruits. Recruiting services’ rating for that crop vary from On3, which puts the Tigers’ 2025 class at No. 17 in the country, to , which has MU sitting 26th.
Missouri sits ninth in the Southeastern Conference, according to both On3 and , though, trailing Tennessee and Texas but ahead of programs like South Carolina and Ole Miss.
Those rankings remain heavily influenced by the quantity of commitments, though. Alabama leads ’s tally, for example, with 18 recruits on tap for 2025.
Mizzou could round out its flock of wideouts for the next recruiting class in the coming days. CBC wide receiver Corey Simms, a four-star prospect who landed on the Post-Dispatch All-Metro second team last season, is set to announce his commitment on Sunday.
Simms has Missouri, Ole Miss, Southern California and Nebraska in his final four schools.
Jayvan Boggs, a four-star from Cocoa, Florida, is another wide receiver on the Tigers鈥 radar. He made Mizzou his final official visit of the summer after stops at Georgia, Southern California and Central Florida.
Quarterback Matt Zollers, who previously committed to Missouri, has pushed on social media for Boggs to pick the Tigers. Boggs plans to make his commitment July 4.
All commitments are unofficial until Dec. 4, which is when recruits can sign letters of intent to lock in their school choices.
