Texas A&M is coming into this game against the Missouri Tigers with some big names once again on the injury report. Terry Bussey remains out after suffering a season-ending injury against the Kentucky Wildcats, posing a huge blow to the Aggie receiving corps, and Mario Craver is once again listed as questionable for the game. OL Blake Ivy, who has seen a decent amount of snaps this season, is a new addition to the list this week.
Apart from Ivy, this is the same thing that happened last week— Craver was listed as questionable in the first report before eventually being termed as a game-time-decision. He was officially available for the game, but had a clearly limited number of snaps that he was going to play.
Craver's availability is paramount for the Aggies, who will be looking to extend out the run game to the perimeter with those short screens that no. 1 excels at. TK Norman stepped up in a big way last week and made some key plays, but there's no substitute on this team for Craver.
Texas A&M sees Mario Craver on injury report again, but Missouri's list is massive
The big, eye-catching piece here, though, is the number of players who are questionable or out for the Tigers in this report. Star RB Ahmad Hardy is the biggest name for Missouri on this list, of course, but he has been out since the beginning of the season.
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JaDon Blair, Josh Atkins, Malae Fonoti, and Gavin Hoffman all missed the game against Florida and will be out again against the Aggies. Langden Kitchen and Darris Smith also missed the game, and are listed here as questionable. Of course, that didn't hold Missouri back from giving Florida much more than they could handle in that game, beating the top-10 Gators by 28 points.
The list is much longer for the Tigers right now, though, than simply those players. It also includes OL Cayden Green (one of Mizzou's top draft prospects) and Auburn transfer LB Robert Woodyard Jr. Those would be two huge losses for the Tigers if they miss this game, and make things significantly easier for A&M on both sides of the ball.
The two safeties listed as questionable, Kensley Louidor-Faustin and Santana Banner, along with Woodyard, make up three of the Tigers' top four tacklers on the year. It seems too much to think that they would all three miss this key game, but if they do, the Aggies will certainly have a heck of a lot more opportunities on offense to make some things happen in the deep passing game.
The other very notable name is veteran TE Brett Norfleet, but he's listed as probable to play at the moment. This is either Lane Kiffin-like gamesmanship from Eli Drinkwitz, or this is an extremely banged-up Missouri team that the Aggies will be taking on this Saturday at 11 AM CT. You have to hope for quick recovery for all of the Missouri players involved, but if they need an extra week to get completely right, then A&M fans wouldn't be complaining in the slightest.
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