The Missouri football team added another piece to its 2020 recruiting class at the expense of another SEC team. Ben Key, a junior college defensive lineman originally from Australia, committed to the Tigers on Thursday after visiting campus last weekend.
Key signed with Mississippi State during in the December early signing period, three weeks before MSU fired coach Joe Moorhead. Key cited the Bulldogs' coaching change in a tweet announcing his change of plans. MSU fired Washington State's Mike Leach earlier this month.
Listed as 6-foot-4 and 285 pounds, Key played rugby growing up in Melbourne then moved to California in high school and attended Cathedral High in Los Angeles.