Ever since Gus Malzahn took over the football program at UCF the Knights have seen a "boom" in recruiting and it truly no question as to why. UCF has moved up in the recruiting ranks tremendously in the last four years.
Recruitment is so important in all college sports and probably the most important in football. Malzahn has seen what recruiting can do in his long coaching career. Granted recruiting is tough nowadays with the transfer portal and NIL.
Malzahn has learned to use NIL and being in Orlando, FL to his advantage when it comes to recruiting, and ever since UCF's football recruitment has gotten better and better.
As news breaks for commits, targets, and flips, we’ll update this tracker.
All rankings are per 247 Sports Composites
UCF football committed 2025 recruits
Four-star recruits
- Kendarius Reddick S - Thomas County Central (Thomasville, GA)
- Chastan Brown OT - Northside (Warner Robins, GA)
- Taevion Swint RB - Osceola (Kissimmee, FL)
- Waden Charles WR - Palm Beach Central (West Palm Beach, FL)
- Tony Williams S - Miami Central (Miami, FL)
Three-star recruits
- Christian Hudson DL - Mainland (Daytona Beach, FL)
- Rukeem Stroud CB - Tampa Bay Tech (Tampa, FL)
- Tylon Lee EDGE - Pace (Milton, FL)
- Darryll Desir DL - Norland (Miami, FL)
- Caden Piening TE - Anderson (Cincinnati, OH)
- Mandrell Desir EDGE - Norland (Miami, FL)
- Malakhi Boone LB - South Sumter (Bushnell, FL)
- Jaquez Joiner OT - Cocoa (Cocoa, FL)
- Santonyo Issac WR - Tampa Bay Tech (Tampa, FL)
- Cameron White LB - Armwood (Seffner, FL)
- Carl Jenkins Jr. WR - St. Augustine (Saint Augustine, FL)
- RyShawn Perry DL - Newton (Covington, GA)
- Andrew Stargel IOL - Rosewell (Rosewell, GA)
- Gavin Blanchard IOL - Wiregrass Ranch (Zephyrhills, FL)
- Zayvan Boggs WR - Cocoa (Cocoa, FL) Boggs de-commits from Missouri and commits to UCF
UCF football top 2025 recruiting targets
Five-star recruits
- Josh Petty OT - Fellowship Christian School (Rosewell, GA)
Four-star recruits
- Jontae Gilbert CB - Douglass (Atlanta, GA)
- Juan Gaston OT - Westlake (Atlanta, GA)
Three-star recruits
- Christian Gass LB - Eastside (Covington, GA)
- Shekai Mills-Knight RB - Baylor School (Chattanooga, TN)
- Walter Mathis DL - Calvary Day School (Savannah, GA)
- Landon Pace ATH - St. Louis Univerisity ( Saint Louis, MO)
Where is the UCF football recruiting class of 2025 currently ranked?
UCF currently has the No. 28 ranked recruiting class in the country according to 247 Sports currently. Malzahn has done a great job bringing in Florida recruits, which former coaches struggled to bring in. UCF still has a lot of opportunities to move up the recruiting ranks with a lot of players still needing to commit.