After one season with the Missouri Tigers, quarterback Beau Pribula plans to head back to the transfer portal.
Pribula had a hot start to the season that had Tiger fans expecting greatness. But he struggled to finish the season for Mizzou.
Pribula posted impressive games leading the Tigers to wins in the first two weeks. He recorded 283 yards and two touchdowns through the air, and 65 yards and two touchdowns on the ground in his first career start. Then he led the Tigers to a win in the Border War with 334 yards and three passing touchdowns.
But after that, he reached 200 passing yards in three-of-eight games. And Pribula finished the year with a 4-of-7 performance for 25 yards against Arkansas where Mizzou coach Eliah Drinkwitz called trying to pass “Playing left handed.”
Pribula led Mizzou to a 5-0 start with wins against Kansas and South Carolina. But the offense struggled with him at the helm against Alabama and Auburn. Then Pribula tried to take a quarterback run around the right side of the line on the goal line against Vanderbilt and his ankle got turned, leading to a non-fracture dislocation.
His future on the field was uncertain immediately, but Pribula was able to return after missing two games and played out the Tigers’ final two contests.
Pribula ended the season 182-of-270 (67.41 percent) passing for 1,941 yards with 11 touchdowns and nine interceptions. He ran the ball 95 times for 297 yards and six touchdowns, but he had five fumbles.
Pribula began his career at Penn State. He redshirted his true freshman season, then became a gadget run option for the Nittany Lions in his redshirt freshman and redshirt sophomore seasons.
The 6-foot-2, 212-pound York, Pa., native will have one year of eligibility remaining.
Without Pribula, the Tigers’ quarterback room is down to:
- Redshirt senior Sam Horn (possible but unlikely return)
- True sophomore Matt Zollers (who took over for Pribula in 2.5 games during injury)
- Incoming three-star freshman Gavin Sidwar
- Walk-on redshirt senior Brett Brown
- Walk-on redshirt freshman Kameron Eleby
- Walk-on redshirt freshman Essien Smith
