For Mizzou football, 2025 is going to be a transition season on the field and in the locker room.
Brady Cook and Luther Burden, the defining on-field personnel of the past two ten win campaigns, have moved on, as have other veterans. A wave of young recruits transferred out, and a new batch, along with veterans from the portal, arrive as reinforcements. While the coaching staff remains mostly intact, the players on the field are changing en masse. New faces are arriving to fill in their roles on the field, but a bigger void to fill will be replacing the locker room leadership of these exiting core veterans.