Report on Mizzou QB plan

When Eliah Drinkwitz met with the media for his Week 1 press conference, he was sure to say there was a QB plan and media didn’t need to know it.

But ESPN’s Pete Thamel seems to have made the plan clear on Tuesday.

“I feel like both of them need to play football,” Drinkwitz said. “I think they both demonstrated the ability of toughness, preparation, decision making, accuracy and leadership in a practice setting. But that doesn’t mean they’ve done it the game setting for us. And I know both of them have played college football before, but they haven’t played in this situation before. So we’ll get to demonstrate, they’ll get to demonstrate that this week, all those this week, and in the game.”

Drinkwitz then gave a one-word answer when asked if there was a scenario where neither quarterback separates himself as the starter going into Week 2.

“No.”

Options

Beau Pribula joined the Tigers through the transfer portal after three seasons at Penn State. He was the backup for two of those seasons and used as a gadget option, primarily focused on running the ball.

Across two seasons, he completed 37-of-56 (66.1 percent) of his attempts for 424 yards and nine touchdowns, while throwing one interception.

He also ran the ball 94 times for 571 yards (6.1 yards per carry) and scored another 10 touchdowns.

Sam Horn has been with the Tigers for the past three seasons. In his true freshman season, he entered one game and threw two incomplete passes, while rushing once for 10 yards. He then took part in a quarterback competition as a redshirt freshman with returning starter Brady Cook.

In the same setup he will play in Thursday, Horn went 3-of-6 passing for 54 yards with one touchdown and one interception. He played the second half against South Dakota.

The expectation that season is he would get the second half again in Week 2 against Middle Tennessee State. But the game was closer than expected.

Drinkwitz left Cook in and the returner won the competition. Leading to an 11-2 season.

“I felt like both quarterbacks played really well. Really since the spring, I think they both established the leadership with the team. As evidenced by both being voted captains,” Drinkwitz said. “And just didn’t feel like I could make a decision without a little bit more information. And I didn’t want to rush the decision. I think the decision of the starting quarterback for me personally, is something that I’m going to have a lot of conviction about. And like both of those guys, like I said, played winning football throughout fall camp. And I had a lot of confidence that both executed a high level.”

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