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The number of contenders for Missouri football’s quarterback competition have been cut in half.
No, Missouri football is not ready to name its starting quarterback for the 2025 season. That’s in line with head coach Eli Drinkwitz’s message at the beginning of spring ball, when the coach indicated the race would run into the fall.
But, the Tigers, who started with four players in the race, are down to two options.
“It was clear to us after probably the first week-and-a-half of spring that the competition is between Beau (Pribula) and Sam (Horn),” Drinkwitz said Tuesday. “And those two guys will be the primary two pushing to be the starting quarterback.”
That, by all offseason assumptions about this competition, is not a surprise. Horn was a four-star recruit who backed up three-year starter Brady Cook until the two-sport, football and baseball athlete had to miss the 2024 campaign after undergoing Tommy John surgery. Pribula was among the Tigers’ marquee transfer portal acquisitions in the winter window.
If there were frontrunners before a pass had been thrown in spring camp, they were Pribula and Horn.
That’s become more obvious in the month of April.
Drew Pyne, who filled in as a backup in his one season with the Tigers in 2024, has transferred to Bowling Green. Pyne’s up-and-down performances relieving Cook through various injuries in 2024 indicated that the Tigers were likely to turn elsewhere for a starter.
True freshman Matt Zollers, a four-star prospect with obvious upside as a passer, was likely to take some time to develop after missing the majority of his senior season of high school with a leg injury. Drinkwitz said Tuesday that “every bit of arm talent, natural leadership ability, athleticism, playmaking ability is there,” but the rookie QB is still likely to be a project for MU.
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