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FOOTBALL RECRUITING
No visitors are expected this weekend, but there are notable visits that are coming together for Missouri over the last two weekends before the early signing period on December 21st.
For now, here are the names we know will be coming in and we'll continue to update them as we get confirmation.
Weekend of Dec. 9th:
Shamar McNeil, CB, American Heritage (Fla.) **commit** - Visited Missouri during the summer unofficially, where he committed. Took a late season visit to Miami (Fla.), but no indication the Hurricanes are a serious threat at the moment.
Weekend of Dec. 16th:
Andrew Armstrong, WR transfer, Texas A&M Commerce - Coming off a huge year - 62 catches, 1,020 yards, 13 TD's - will take an official visit to Arkansas the weekend of Dec. 9th before he comes to Missouri.
Jordon Harris, TE, Pine Bluff (Ark.) - Visited Missouri earlier in the season for the Vanderbilt game, where he picked up an offer from the Tigers. Before he comes back to Columbia for an official, he'll take one to Vanderbilt on Dec. 9th.
CJ Johnson, S, Paetow (Tex.) - Picked up an offer from Missouri on October 17th. Has taken a summer official to Boston College and one to Louisville in late October.
- Aside from McNeil, other Missouri commitments that will likely come in this month for their officials include WR
Daniel Blood, LB
Brayshawn Littlejohn, LB
Triston Newson, K
Blake Craig, DL
Jahkai Lang, and CB
Phillip Roche.
- We previously mentioned
Andrew Armstrong, who has an official scheduled with Missouri for Dec. 16th. Missouri has also offered a couple of new transfer prospects this week in former South Florida WR
Jimmy Horn and Rhode Island OL
Ajani Cornelius.
Horn appeared in 23 games for the Bulls, hauling in 67 passes for 959 yards and four touchdowns. He was also productive in the return game, tallying 323 yards on 16 kickoff returns. Pitt, Virginia Tech, West Virginia, Penn State are other teams that have offered so far.
Cornelius is a multi-season starter at tackle and All-Conference performer. He's picked up over 16 offers since entering the portal on Tuesday.
*The portal is largely going to be something that develops over the next week or two. A lot of players that will be in it are not officially in it yet. Here is a list of players who have stated they intend to enter the portal that
Eli Drinkwitz is now following on social media. Obviously this doesn't mean Missouri is for sure targeting these prospects, but it's an indication they're worth keeping an eye on.
Theo Wease
Kyle Morlock
Jake Renfro
James Jointer
Elijah Jeudy
JQ Hardaway
Avery Helm
Drake Metcalf
Here's what we think Mizzou probably needs in the portal:
Running Back
Tight End
Offensive line (2+)
Wide Receiver
Defensive End (2+)
Cornerback
Quarterback (?) -- We don't know which way this one is going to go. We've tried to ask around. Nobody is saying anything. After the way last offseason went it wouldn't be a surprise if Missouri tried to keep its QB activity relatively quiet.
Some of that is obviously going to depend on who leaves. There's a lot that could happen over the next few weeks. Mizzou has already had
nine players enter the portal. Yesterday was quiet. We expect there to be more portal entrants. It officially opens on Monday. Announcements could really come at any time. And just because an announcement doesn't happen Monday doesn't mean it won't happen. The portal is open for 45 days. So any time up until January 20, a player can decide to enter the portal. We'd expect most of it to happen some time before the end of the calendar year, but you never know.
The other impact on the roster will be the NFL Draft. Here are the players that we believe could declare that haven't already:
Darius Robinson, Ty'Ron Hopper, Jaylon Carlies, Kris Abrams-Draine. We haven't heard much of anything on Robinson. We've been told in the last few days that the latter three are all leaning toward entering the draft. Obviously, it can change. Nothing is final. This is just what we've heard in the last few days. In other words, it's very realistic Missouri could lose more than half of its starting defense in the coming weeks (the only starters we're definitely confident at this point will be back next year are
Chad Bailey, Joseph Charleston and
Kristian Williams).
It's going to be a little bit of a roller coaster. If emotional stability isn't your thing, considering yourself warned.
BASKETBALL RECRUITING
We can definitely confirm that
Kris Parker will make an official visit this weekend. He's flying to Columbia on Saturday and should be here through the game on Sunday. This has been a strange recruitment. We've gone from very confident to thinking Mizzou had moved on to relatively confident. Parker had a decision date set for December 12th. But now that date is off. We don't know a new date or if there is one. Regardless he will be in Columbia this weekend and we'll do our best to get in touch with him after the trip.
We expect there to be some other visitors over the next week, There will definitely be some local kids in town for the KU game. But it may not be a huge visit weekend. Kids are playing games and the staff is concentrating on winning the game over entertaining visitors so it may not be as big in numbers as some think.
Stay tuned for updates. Things are changing rapidly at this point in time.