Four days is a long, long time in college football recruiting.
Class of 2025 and three-star running back Brendon Haygood committed to Missouri football on Tuesday evening. The tailback was committed to Boise State until Saturday, when the tailback announced he was backing out of his pledge to the Mountain West Conference team while on a visit with the Tigers for their game against Arkansas.
Haygood announced his decision live on his personal Instagram account.
With Haygood now on board the night before the early signing period opens, Missouri now has two running backs committed to its Class of 2025.
Get this: Neither of whom were committed to the Tigers when they played Arkansas on Saturday.
In addition to Haygood, Mizzou flipped four-star running back Marquise Davis on Sunday from SEC rival Kentucky. Then, earlier Tuesday, Jamarion Morrow backed out of his Mizzou pledge and flipped to Texas A&M.
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Haygood is the No. 688-ranked player in his class, per the recruiting service 247Sports' composite rankings. The Sachse, Texas, product is the No. 51-ranked running back in his class.
With all the commitments and decommitments likely done for the day Tuesday, Mizzou now has the No. 21-ranked recruiting class in this cycle, per 247Sports' composite national team rankings. That is good for 11th in the SEC.
On Wednesday, high school players can sign for teams and make their verbal commitments more official. This is the first year that players will not sign a national letter of intent, which has been replaced by a financial aid agreement that does a lot of the same work that an NLI did, but the new model is supposed to modernize the signing system with revenue sharing on the horizon in college athletics.
Mizzou is still chasing multiple players in the Class of 2025 into Wednesday. Defensive ends Javion Hilson and Tobi Haastrup and safety Javion Butts are expected to announce their college decisions Wednesday, and Mizzou appears to be in the running for each of them.
This article originally appeared on Columbia Daily Tribune: Missouri football secures commitment from Class of '25 RB Brendon Haygood
