In recent years, Missouri football has attracted top candidates from within the state's borders.
Eureka High School offensive tackle Jack Lang, a 2025 graduate and the top-ranked player in the state of Missouri, committed to Missouri football on Wednesday, announcing his commitment during a live stream from the high school. Currently a 6-foot-8, 275-pound four-star prospect, Lange is rated as the 15th best offensive tackle in his class and the No. 144 player nationally, according to 247Sports Composite Recruiting Rankings. There is.
Lange chose Missouri over Michigan, Nebraska and Wisconsin. He will be the fifth player to join Mizzou coach Eli Drinkwitz's upcoming recruiting class.
In a bit of a departure from recent tradition, it took Missouri five commitments this cycle to acquire a player from within the state's borders.
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The University of Missouri's 2025 selection includes Matt Zollers, the No. 1-ranked four-star quarterback from Penn State. Dante McClellan, a four-star linebacker from Ohio State; Jason Dewell is a three-star defensive tackle from Illinois. and Joshua Ruiz, a three-star defensive end from Louisiana.
In line with a new trend, Missouri has acquired the top prospect in its home state.
Williams Nwaneri, a five-star edge rusher and Missouri's top-ranked prospect in the 2024 class, is scheduled to arrive in Columbia this summer.
Since Nwaneri's commitment, it has been nine years since Missouri brought the Show-Me State's top player (quarterback Drew Lock) back in 2015 for a home run. Luther Baden III, one of the top players in the 2022 class, was scouted out of East St. Louis, Illinois.
Now, the Tigers have won consecutive games.
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Mr. Drinkwitz followed his mission statement on day one and was more successful in recruiting the state than anyone else.
But the latest effort in the Tigers' home turf is a sign of House Bill 417, passed last summer, which would allow Missouri-based high school athletes to profit from the use of their name, image and likeness prior to signing. It is certain that it has not been affected. National Letter of Intent, subject to affiliation with a Missouri-based post-secondary institution.
In this case: Mizou.
Since then, states across the country have copied the law.
Missouri recently lost out on the state's No. 2 prospect, wide receiver Isaiah Mosey, who transferred to Oregon State. But the Tigers do have other top-10 prospects solid, including Christian Brother College wide receiver Corey Sims and Herman edge rusher Daden Hopkins.
Lange's signing came on the same day the Tigers acquired a contract from an offensive tackle five years his senior, SMU transfer left tackle Marcus Bryant.
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