COLUMBIA, Mo. — Luther Burden III will be the first to admit his freshman season hasn’t always gone as expected. Then again, when you’re nicknamed “Touchdown Luther” and your focus every time you touch the ball is one singular thought — “End zone,” he said earlier this season — fulfilling the five-star hype might have been an impossible task.
But 11 games into Missouri’s football season, the Tigers have started to resolve two issues with one solution.
How do you fix a crummy red-zone offense? Get Burden the ball.
How do you get Burden more involved in the offense?