PowerMizzou - 2024 Football Unofficial Scholarship Chart
We update the scholarship situation as we know it for the Tigers over the next five years.
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Some disclaimers are needed here: We don't know the situation of quite a few seniors for sure. Any that announce they are coming back will be added. For now, we have included those who did not walk on senior day as coming back. Drinkwitz said those players will not count in the 85, so they are listed as scholarship players here, but not reflected in our count.
All freshmen and incoming recruits are listed in 2025 right now. Obviously that will change. Rakestraw, Carlies, Mevis aren't redshirting next year. We know that. But as long as they have the year, we're putting them in 2025. We'll change it next fall as need be.
As of today, we have Mizzou at 74 players who will count toward scholarship limits next year. We expect Missouri to add up to seven more in this class, which would get them to 81 plus any potential underclassmen walk-ons. What we don't know is two-fold:
1) what the NCAA is doing with the limits going forward. Right now, Mizzou has 35 players who are in one class (and it could grow to 42 with additional signees. That's obviously not feasible. There's going to have to be a plan on the limits so that teams aren't losing half their roster in one recruiting cycle--this is one reason why I've been so against this free year business). In addition, as it stands right now, if Mizzou adds seven more in this class, it would have room for only four players in the 2022 class. We obviously know that isn't going to be the case. We can usually get a pretty good handle on what the class size will be a year in advance. There's absolutely zero way to do that this year.
2) How many players won't use the five or six years they have in college. Just because Jalani Williams and Connor Bazelak are currently freshmen next year again, does that mean they're going to be on the roster through 2024? Probably not. It might be the case for a few guys, but let's be realistic, it probably won't be for most of them.
But for now, without answers to those questions, this is the only way to do it.
