Five-star ºüÀêÊÓƵ University High wide receiver Ryan Wingo is going to be a Longhorn.
Wingo committed to play college football for the University of Texas during a ceremony Wednesday afternoon on the SLUH campus.
Verbal commitments are non-binding. Recruits can’t sign their national letters of intent until Dec. 20.
Wingo had more than 40 scholarship offers from schools across the nation. His other finalists were Missouri, Georgia, Texas A&M, Tennessee and Miami, all represented by hats during his livestreamed commitment ceremony.
A 6-foot-2, 205-pound receiver and cornerback, Wingo is the lone senior five-star recruit in the ºüÀêÊÓƵ area. He is the No. 1 recruit on the Post-Dispatch Super 30 countdown of the area’s top senior football prospects.
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Wingo has been slowed this season by a knee injury and missed four successive games before returning Oct. 13 against Rockhurst. Wingo still 32 has receptions this season for 469 yards. He seems to be rounding back into his usual dangerous form with 15 catches for 195 yards over his last two games.
As a junior, he hauled in 41 passes for 785 yards and scored 13 times overall.
tabs Wingo as the No. 4 wide receiver and No. 19 overall prospect in the 2024 class, while ranks him as the No. 2 wideout and No. 5 overall prospect.
Wingo exceeds on both sides of the ball, although his big-play catching skills fit well on the offensive side of the ball.
The speedster, who once recorded a clocking of 10.55 seconds in the 100-meter dash on the track, comes from an excellent football family.
His brother Ray Wingo played at Mizzou and hauled in five catches for 133 yards and two touchdowns in 2016.
Another brother, Ronnie Wingo, was a running back at the University of Arkansas from 2009-2012. Ronnie rushed for 1,089 yards and six touchdowns over a four-year career. He was on the practice squad of the Atlanta Falcons in 2013 and 2014.
His father, Ronnie Sr., played for the Sumner High team that won the Class 5 state championship in 1982.