On Tuesday, Missouri players and coaches met with the media for their first in-season availability of 2018. MUTigers.com released the first game notes and depth chart of the season.
And, above all, there weren’t many big surprises on the depth chart itself. The most news came regarding the freshmen that did make the two-deep. There were six of them:
The loftiest praise seems to be about Badie, at least at this stage. From Dave Matter’s media day wrap-up notebook, Drew Lock said this about Badie and early comparisons to Marcus Murphy:
“If there’s a guy wearing 6, can come in the backfield, go play the slot, get open for the two-minute drill, have no one really be able to cover him in space and do punt return and kick return, that kind of sounds a little like Marcus Murphy.