Replacing all-time great players is an impossible task. There is no internal replacement for someone like Nick Bolton. But the Tigers did their best last spring to find a player who could replace some of Bolton’s production by adding Blaze Alldredge via the transfer portal. Alldredge filled in admirably. He wasn’t Bolton, but nobody is. Alldredge’s season mirrored the defense as a whole: a slow start, but a really strong finish.
The Tigers are going back to the transfer well in hopes of replacing at least a portion of Tyler Badie’s record-breaking production. Missouri picked up a commitment this week from former Stanford running back and Columbia native Nathaniel Peat.