Mizzou picks up first 2021 commitment from in-state defensive tackle
The 2021 recruiting cycle is going to be a huge one for new Mizzou coach Eliah Drinkwitz, as it will be his first full year with the Tiger program.
On Sunday, he added his first player in the 2021 class, going into St. Louis to land a 3-star defensive tackle prospect.
As you can see below, Mekhi Wingo announced via Twitter that he was committing to Drinkwitz and the Mizzou team:
COMMITTED #NewZou pic.twitter.com/YGrGNKNMdY
— mekhi wingo (@WingoMekhi) January 19, 2020
Per the 247Sports composite rankings, Wingo is the No. 52 defensive tackle in the 2021 recruiting class and the No. 12 overall recruit from the state of Missouri.
The Tigers now have one player in their 2021 recruiting class, which currently ranks No. 46 nationally and No. 10 in the SEC, per 247Sports.
Below, check out some of Wingo’s high school highlights, courtesy of Hudl:
Read all the recruiting news of late. At this rate Drinkwitz is going to blow a lot of former Missouri coaches out of the water as a top recruiter. Not only has he got the attention of numerous new players but he has them saying a lot of positive things about the Zou. Watch the early enrollment young men arriving and checking in. Every part of those video yells out, “I’m just arrived in the best place I could have ever hoped for”. It’s a better look among a class of videos where lots of young men are looking hopeful.
And Missouri has some impressive defensive tackle history.
Here is the new updated family tree of QBs starting with Smith NFL, Daniels NFL, Gabbert NFL, Franklin CFL, Mauk DRH, Lock NFL, Bryant Senior Bowl draft coming, next could be Robinson, Bazelak, (Powell ?), and now Brady Cook. When you check out Cook look at his sudden dramatic improvement in performance over the past year (receiver heaven I would think of it)
Early commitments like this can be both good and bad. It could be followed up by other commitments as guys try to recruit each other, but there’s also a lot of dang time for other schools to continue recruiting early commits in an effort to flip. It’s also a lot of time for the commit to see how the staff does in year one and perhaps reconsider. But if this is a rock solid commit then it’s a good start to Drink’s first class.
If he doesn’t decommit, MU will probably have to start him as a freshman. Baptism by fire…hope they can keep him healthy.
2021 recruits is always good, but you would think at the hotest time for recruiting in 2020 Drink would be pulling some guys to really talk about?