With three starting-level linebackers all graduating out of the program at the same time, it was paramount that Missouri find several linebackers to backfill the two deep, with a preference to those who’ve had starting experience in an effort to (hopefully) seamlessly fill in.
And Mizzou found a good one who can do just that in rising Redshirt Senior Mikai Gbaynor out of Nebraska.
At this point college eligibility is a complete joke, rife with one-liners and turns of phrase that sometimes make sense but most of the time don’t. But, in finer, more simpler times, Gbaynor would be in his last year of eligibility as he redshirted in 2021, didn’t see the field as a freshman in ‘22, and then played during his sophomore and junior seasons.