Playing in the early afternoon heat for a road game, Evan Davis set team wake up for 7 a.m. to get his players up and ready. He walked down to the first floor of the hotel at 6:30 a.m. to find the guys already eating and fully awake.

The leader in that movement was D'Montae Tims.

"He had that group focused from the night before all the way through," said Davis, the coach of Seffner (Fla.) Armwood. "It was just like, 'Holy crap. This kid is about freaking business, and we're going to be a great place as long as this kid is engaged and ready to freaking go.'"

Tims committed to Missouri on Friday, becoming the Tigers' second pledge in the 2026 class. The three-star safety barely held college interest leading up to this offseason, but everything clicked in his junior campaign.

"I've been doing it long enough you can see where he was going to do it, and then he just bought in," Davis said. "Whatever you told him to do, he was just going to do it 110 miles an hour and to the best of his ability, and boom, this happens. He ends up with 30 plus offers."


For Armwood, Tims brought physicality in the run game, allowing the defense to be multiple. He carried pass-catchers vertical as a safety in space, showing versatility and characteristics to play the STAR position for Missouri.

Tims compared Missouri safeties coach Jacob Yoro to Davis. Building both relationships, albeit the one with Yoro was in a shorter time period, Tims recognized similarities in both coaches.

"I think it is just one of genuine love and passion for kids that love and have passion for the game and do stuff the right way," Davis said. "You believe in a kid even sometimes when he didn't believe in himself. ... As a coach, this is a kid you wake up every day and coach for, and it's the kid when you just want to do anything you possibly can for him."

Playing with elite talent in his home state, including his friend and teammate Jaelen Waters, a Florida commit, Tims brought more energy and preparation to every Friday this past fall. Tims separated himself mentally and physically from his peers.

"He's never been given anything," Davis said. "He's earned everything, and I think that's just a character trait that you just can't replace in today's society, where some of these kids get success so early on that sometimes it's before they've been able to grind and work for it all the way. And this kid is not that case at all. He is worked, grinded and earned everything he's got."

@Greg Smith:

The official visit schedule for high three-star tight end Isaac Jensen has been set. The Omaha (Neb.) Millard South standout has tweaked his official visit schedule, he tells Rivals.

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Jensen will visit Iowa State on May 30, Missouri on June 6, Florida State on June 13 and he will round out his visits with a trip to Texas A&M on June 20. The playmaker told me why each school made the cut.

“To be honest it's just the places that feel most like home,” Jensen said.

“I feel like I fit in at all of the places and all of them have shown me how they will use me in their offense. I had Nebraska set for June 13th but I canceled it. I might set a different date for Nebraska but haven’t decided yet.”

RIVALS' TAKE:​

Jensen’s recruitment has been a very intriguing one to watch from the start. Things just never really seemed to mesh with the in-state Huskers. While he’s keeping the door open to visit them down the road, Jensen seems destined to leave the state to play college football. It feels like a similar situation to his fellow tight end teammate from last cycle Chase Loftin who ended up at Florida State.

Iowa State and Missouri remain the top two teams I’m watching for Jensen. His quarterback and best friend Jett Thomalla has offers from each school and is also heavily considering them. Another teammate, Amarion Jackson, is committed to Iowa State already. But we’ve seen Florida State and Texas A&M expand its recruiting footprints to the Midwest. Each are tough schools to beat on the recruiting trail.

Former Missouri backup quarterback Drew Pyne is headed to Bowling Green with his final two years of eligibility, per Rivals.com confirmed.

As Pyne succeeds Connor Bazelak, the pipeline grows...

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Missouri received the commitment of UCLA transfer Sebastian Mack, Rivals.com confirmed. The Tigers now have two open roster spots for next season.