In 49 days, there will be a definitive answer.
Either Beau Pribula or Sam Horn will lead the offense out onto Faurot Field in Missouri football’s season-opening game against Central Arkansas on Thursday, Aug. 28, and the Tigers officially will have their new starting quarterback.
But until the new season begins — now just seven weeks away as of Tuesday, July 8 — the biggest question on the Mizzou roster is still waiting for an answer.
The race to be Brady Cook’s successor is down to two players.
Here is what you need to know about Mizzou’s quarterback room for the 2025 season, including our depth projections, the upside and possible questions for the room and some snippets of what the coaches said during the spring:
Missouri football projected depth chart at quarterback
Starting contenders Beau Pribula, gr.; Sam Horn, r-jr.
Reserves: Matt Zollers, fr.; Tommy Lock, gr.; Kameron Eleby, fr.
Before getting to predictions, let’s add a disclaimer: Missouri has not named a starting quarterback. The race will run into fall camp.
But, our best guess is that Pribula fits the mold of what Mizzou is looking for the most.
The Penn State transfer’s upside is high. He’s clearly a well-above-average runner, which Mizzou has used effectively with Cook under offensive coordinator Kirby Moore. That gives the Tigers some versatility, especially in the red zone on designed runs, draws and scrambles. Coach Eli Drinkwitz seemed to be offering up more than coachspeak in the spring when he said Pribula was a “better passer than we had anticipated,” too.
Transfer portal quarterbacks don’t come cheap in this era of college football, and it’s unlikely the Tigers spent money on Pribula for him to ride the bench.
Horn very well may prove to be the better candidate. If that’s the case, he will start. But from our vantage point in…
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