Near the end of the 2013 season, outgoing linebacker Andrew Wilson was asked what kind of understudy Kentrell Brothers had been. He smirked. “He’s a good player. He studies the game real well. He’s going to be a great for years to come,” Wilson said of Brothers at the time.
Fast forward to mid-October, 2015. After playing some the easier portion of their 2015 schedule, Brothers has a statistic that stood out among everyone on the team, he led the nation in tackles. The Missouri defense didn’t have that familiar prototype end lineman that Craig Kuligowski seems to just manufacture out of thin air every year, but they do have Brothers who is playing at a very high level.