Mizzou football flips 4-star RB Marquise Davis from Kentucky ahead of early signing period
With the early signing period quickly approaching, Mizzou football flipped a commitment Sunday night, landing a pledge from Cleveland running back Marquise Davis.
The four-star recruit from Cleveland Heights High School was previously committed to SEC rival Kentucky. He is the 16th-ranked running back in the country in the class of 2025, per 247Sports, and the No. 9 player in the state of Ohio. On3 has him rated as the No. 7 running back in the nation.
Davis put up some eye-popping numbers at Cleveland Heights. Last season, when the running back/linebacker was named Ohio’s Gatorade Player of the Year, he finished with, depending on the source, either 2,405 or 2,228 yards rushing and 34 or 35 touchdowns while recording 91 or 75 tackles, three interceptions — including one for a touchdown — five tackles for loss, one sack, three forced fumbles and four pass breakups.
This season, he had games with 463 yards rushing with eight touchdowns and 335 yards rushing.
He joins fellow Ohioans Dante McClellan (LB, Canton) and Shaun Terry (WR, Ironton) as commits for MU in the class of 2025.
With the early signing period set for Wednesday-Friday, MU currently has the 19th-ranked class in the country with 16 commitments.
Many analysts expect the Tigers to lose their top-rated commit — five-star offensive lineman Lamont Rogers of Mesquite, Texas — to Texas A&M, and they could also see consensus four-star running back Jamarion Morrow of Memphis, Tennessee, flip.
Securing Davis would take the sting out of the latter, if it were to happen, and MU also had running back Brendon Haygood of Sachse, Texas, on a visit this weekend. Haygood decommitted from Boise State on Saturday just before watching the Tigers beat Arkansas 28-21 in their regular-season finale.
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This story was originally published December 2, 2024 at 10:11 AM with the headline "Mizzou football flips 4-star RB Marquise Davis from Kentucky ahead of early signing period."