With less than two weeks before Missouri State takes the field to play its opener at Kansas, we got our first look at the Bears during their intrasquad scrimmage on Saturday morning.
There were things we liked and things that will need to be addressed in the coming weeks. Both the offense and defense had their moments throughout the practice.
Here were our takeaways along with what head coach Ryan Beard noticed:
Wide receiver departure leaves Missouri State with those it developed
One of the newcomers that Missouri State had expressed some of the most excitement about heading into the season was Western Kentucky transfer wide receiver Craig Burt Jr.