One of Missouri football’s top-ranked pledges in the Class of 2025 has flipped his commitment and chosen to stay closer to home.

Jayvan Boggs, a four-star wide receiver who originally committed to Missouri football’s next class last month, decommitted from the Tigers late Tuesday evening, switching his decision to play for UCF, per a report from On3’s Hayes Fawcett.

Boggs is from Cocoa, Florida, which is less than an hour from Orlando and UCF, the second-year Big 12 school led by Gus Malzahn, who Missouri coach Eli Drinkwitz worked with as an assistant at Auburn and Arkansas State.

The wide receiver is ranked as the No. 211 player in the country and the No. 23 wide receiver in his class, per the 247Sports Composite rankings.

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Boggs originally committed to Mizzou on July 4, kicking off one of the better recruiting streaks in program history. The Tigers landed five highly ranked prospects in the space of a week, taking their class as high as the No. 11-ranked group in the nation.

After Boggs’ flip to UCF — making him the highest-ranked recruit in UCF history, per Rivals — Mizzou now ranks No. 16 in 247Sports’ national rankings. The Tigers have 16 players committed, with an average star ranking that puts them eighth in the 16-team SEC.

Early pledges should often be taken with a dose of skepticism: Verbal commitments are free to move until they put pen to paper during the early national signing period, which will open Dec. 4 this year.

The Tigers still have two high-pedigree receivers committed in their Class of 2025.

Donovan Olugbode, who is a top-100 national recruit and committed the day after Boggs, is a four-star receiver out of Illinois who is about to begin his senior season on a national schedule with Florida-based IMG Academy. Ironton, Ohio, native Shaun Terry, a three-star prospect, also is pledged to MU.

The Tigers are expected to lose star wide receiver Luther Burden III to an early NFL Draft declaration at the end of the 2024 season, as he is tipped as a top-10 overall pick. Standouts Theo Wease Jr. and Mookie Cooper are entering their respective final years of eligibility.

That leaves the potential for six scholarship wide receivers to return to Mizzou next season: Marquis Johnson; Mekhi Miller; Daniel Blood; Joshua Manning; Courtney Crutchfield; and James Madison II.

This article originally appeared on Columbia Daily Tribune: Jayvan Boggs: 4-star Florida WR flips commitment to UCF from Missouri