Top Tigers for 2019: No. 7, Trajan Jeffcoat

Missouri head coach Barry Odom watches his team play during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Arkansas Friday, Nov. 23, 2018, in Columbia, Mo. (AP Photo/L.G. Patterson) Trajan JeffcoatShane Ray isn’t walking through that door. Nor is Kony Ealy or Markus Golden. The Tigers haven’t had a consistent pass-rushing threat off the edge since Charles Harris — Marcell Frazier had his moments but didn’t strike the same kind of fear in offensive tackles — but the wait might be over. Mizzou signed a couple high school defensive end prospects in 2018, hoping they’d reconnect the program to its proud past along the edge. Trajan Jeffcoat, No. 7 on on the countdown, now gets his shot. The sophomore from Columbia, S.C., had one tackle behind the line of scrimmage last season as a reserve, a sack against Arkansas. Whatever he did this offseason was enough to earn first-team snaps in the spring. He’ll open preseason camp as a starter with a chance to provide some much-needed juice off the corner.

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