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COLUMBIA, Mo. — Missouri football wants to keep quarterback Brady Cook grounded.
To be clear, that’s different from being on the ground, as in sacked. The Tigers very much don’t want that, so they brought in two starting offensive linemen from the transfer portal this offseason to keep the football kind of pressure off him.
But they don’t exactly want him flying too far from the ground either.
“I’m constantly hammering him with: ‘We don’t need a celebrity quarterback, we need a battlefield commander,’” coach Eli Drinkwitz said of Cook, who’s entering his third and final season as Mizzou’s starting signal-caller.