Get to know Texas signee Ryan Wingo on national signing day
Whether you’re a diehard recruiting fan in need of a refresher or a casual fan in need of only the particulars, this will be the series for you.
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The first national signing day for college football begins December 20 and runs through December 22. This series gives you the chance to familiarize yourself with the next class charged with keeping Texas in a position of national prominence.
To win at a consistently high level means stacking talented class after talented class. The top-five 2024 class does just that following top-five finishes in the 2022 and 2023 classes.
On the first national signing day, Inside Texas will offer profiles of each member of the 2024 signing class. Up next, Ryan Wingo.
The Player: Ryan Wingo, WR, St. Louis (Mo.) University High
The Rating: 96.89 (five-star)
The Ranking: Wingo is ranked as the No. 28 overall prospect, the No. 8 wide receiver, and the No. 2 player in Missouri in the On3 Industry Ranking. On3 ranks Wingo as the No. 66 overall prospect, the No. 13 wide receiver, and the No. 4 player in Missouri.
The Highlights:
The Recruitment: A who’s who of schools offered Wingo a scholarship throughout the course of his recruitment, but only Texas, Miami, Tennessee, Georgia, Texas A&M, Colorado, and Missouri made the final cut. Wingo and family took official visits to Texas, Michigan, Georgia, and Missouri in June, but the recruitment carried into the season where it became a Texas vs. Missouri battle for one of the best receivers in the nation. Wingo took in-season visits to both schools but chose the Longhorns over the in-state Tigers on October 25.
The Projection: Wingo is an elite athlete with pretty rare proportions for a wide receiver. At about 6-foot-2 and 210 while still in high school, he’s the sort that would have played running back in most eras and quarterback for most teams today. But he plays receiver so his fluidity and long speed have already been put to work in executing double moves and various route running skills. With a 10.64 100m time to his name Wingo has deep threat speed and is clearly very comfortable playing like a Xavier Worthy type, moving around in space and torching people with pure speed. He could play at any receiver position, and probably will before he’s done as his team moves him around to find matchups. – Ian Boyd
The Reasoning: “I think just that Sarkisian offense and how he utilizes his receivers is just different,” Wingo said. “They get the ball out to their receivers, and you want to go play somewhere where they get their receivers the ball. They’ve got the quarterbacks too.”
The Enrollment: Wingo will enroll early in January.
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The Final Word: Wingo was a must-win recruit and Sarkisian earned the dub, beating a future SEC opponent and the in-state school in the process.
