Missouri Tigers NFL Draft Prospects

Missouri finished 8-5 (4-4 SEC) in 2025 and closed with a 7-13 Gator Bowl loss to Virginia, a flat ending to a season that once carried real momentum. The Tigers opened fast and scored in bunches, then cratered whenever the offense stalled: they averaged better than 41 points in their eight wins but barely 13 in their five losses. The extremes traced back to the line of scrimmage and the quarterback position, and both are now in new hands.

The offseason belonged to reinvention on both sides of the ball. Eliah Drinkwitz handed the offense to new coordinator Chip Lindsey, hired away from Michigan, and turned the huddle over to Ole Miss transfer Austin Simmons. On defense the turnover is close to total, with every regular starter from a unit that ranked among the nation's stingiest now gone. Even so, a program that has won 29 games across the past three years, trailing only Georgia, Texas, Alabama and Ole Miss in the SEC over that span, has earned the benefit of the doubt.