Missouri offers 2025 top-3 EDGE Zayden Walker

Ellaville (Ga.) Schley County four-star EDGE Zayden Walker received an offer from Missouri Monday. He announced the news on Twitter.

Walker is the No. 3 overall prospect and No. 1 EDGE in the 2025 cycle, according to the On3 Consensus, a complete and equally weighted industry-generated average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies. He is also the No. 2 player in Georgia.

The 6-foot-2, 220-pound Walker holds 22 Power Five offers.

Blessed to receive an offer from the University of Missouri💛!!!! @MizzouFootball @Mansell247 @ChadSimmons_ @CoachDjSmith @CJheinz34 @SchleyRecruits pic.twitter.com/oMWkYSj3lS

— Zayden Walker (@ZaydenWalker3) February 6, 2023

Walker didn’t take any visits in January but did receive a visit from Florida outside linebackers coach Mike Peterson who came to Schley County to Walker and 2024 top-100 athlete Jalewis Solomon.

Prior to that, Florida was the last school Walker visited as he went for the Gators’ final home game of the 2022 season against South Carolina. Last year he visited Florida multiple times as well as Florida State, Georgia and Alabama.

The On3 Recruiting Prediction Machine currently has Florida State with a narrow lead over Florida to land a commitment from Walker.

RPM was released to the public in December 2021. The On3 engineering group teamed up with Spiny.ai to create the industry’s first algorithm and machine learning-based product to predict where athletes will attend college.It factors in machine learning, social sentiment, visits and historical trends. However, expert predictions are still a big piece of the RPM equation.

It factors in machine learning, social sentiment, visits and historical trends. However, expert predictions are still a big piece of the RPM equation.

Walker currently has an On3 NIL Valuation of $90K. The On3 NIL Valuation is the industry’s leading index that sets high school and college athletes’ projected annual value (PAV). The NIL valuation does not act as a tracker of the value of NIL deals an athlete has completed to date. It rather signifies an athlete’s value at a certain moment in time.