Missouri’s Returning Production: Defense

Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports Last Tuesday we broke down Missouri’s returning offensive production and today we get to do the defensive side. As a reminder, here is where Missouri stands as far as returning production going in to 2021:

Overall Returning Production: 72% - 56th

Offensive Returning Production: 82% - 27th

Defensive Returning Production: 62% - 89th

So while the offensive version of this article had good news the defensive version is a little less rosy. You can probably guess why there’s such a drop in returning production (it rhymes with Shmick Shmolten) but we’ll get to that in a second.

Once again here is Missouri’s end-of-year two-deep based off of production and snap counts…