COLUMBIA, Mo. - Let’s take one last look at Missouri’s 2020 season with a glance at the secondary, a group that endured its share of attrition during the season and mixed some of the team’s most seasoned players with some of the least experienced. For now, the biggest question mark for the secondary is the still vacant defensive coordinator position. Ryan Walters is settling into his new job at Illinois, while Eli Drinkwitz looks for his replacement. Walters coached the safeties and for all six of his years at MU worked exclusively with players in the secondary.
In Walters' 4-2-5 scheme, the Tigers played with three safeties on the field on virtually every snap, two traditional deep safeties and a third hybrid safety/outside linebacker closer to the line of scrimmage.