Eli Drinkwitz stared down at the lectern and chuckled as the question came down the line. That name, Marcel Reed, landed him in some hot water last year.

He wasn’t making the same mistake twice.

Early in the 2024 campaign, before Drinkwitz’s Missouri football team went on the road to face Texas A&M, he said that he expected the Aggies to start Reed at quarterback. That, Mizzou fans will recall, was not how it panned out. Texas A&M went with Conner Weigman. And Weigman, in Drinkwitz’s on-the-money recollection …

“He killed us,” the Mizzou coach said Tuesday.

But, this might be a case of ‘not wrong, just early’ for the Mizzou coach. Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!

Weigman is now with Houston, where by all accounts he’s having a solid s

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