Mizzou to play both quarterbacks in opener
The quarterback competition continues for the Missouri Tigers.
After a fall camp battle between Penn State transfer Beau Pribula and redshirt junior Sam Horn, the Missouri Tigers will go into Week 1 with both set to play.
“I informed the team this afternoon that both quarterbacks will play in the first game,” Missouri coach Eliah Drinkwitz said in a team statement. “I want to see them in a game-day situation to make a final determination.”
Pribula came to the Tigers after three seasons with Penn State. He spent two as the backup and a gadget option.
The redshirt junior was a regular in the run game, totaling 571 yards and 10 touchdowns on 94 attempts across two seasons. But his passing was limited. He completed 37 passes on 56 attempts for 424 yards and nine touchdowns, while tossing just one interception.
Last season, he took over the second half of the Nittany Lion’s game against Wisconsin because of injury. Pribula completed 11-for-13 passing for 98 yards and a touchdown.
He then joined the Tigers in the winter transfer portal.
Horn is entering his fourth year with the Tigers. In that time, he has played in four games, three of which came in 2023.
He is returning after a torn UCL suffered during Mizzou’s 2024 baseball season that held him out of the football season last year. For his career, Horn is 3-of-8 passing for 54 yards and one touchdown with one interception.
Horn joined Mizzou as a four-star recruit and the No. 14 quarterback in the class of 2022.
Drinkwitz did not announce the setup for the game. If the coach goes with the same setup as Horn’s competition with Brady Cook in 2023, each QB would get a full half in the season opener against Central Arkansas on Aug. 28.
“Yeah, you wish it was easy and that there would be, you know, something definitive that you could point out and say, ‘Hey, this was the reason why,'” Drinkwitz said Tuesday. “But it’s not gonna be the case. So we’ll figure it out from there. So they pay me to do they pay me to make tough decisions. That’s what I gotta do.”
