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11. Missouri (11.3 Average) Returning Starters/Contributors: WR Bud Sasser Key Losses: WR L'Damian Washington, WR Marcus Lucas Our Thoughts: -- Lost DGB, L'Damian Washington, and Marcus Lucas. Of Missouri's 31 receiving touchdowns those three accounted for 48% of them. Bud Sasser and Jimmie Hunt come on down. -- Lost their top three receivers, including one of the best players in the conference. The Dorial Green-Beckham loss is a killer because it was so unexpected. They went from set to disarray. -- Last season, they'd have been towards the top. -- "Just losing too much for me to think they'll be as good [out wide] as they were last season." "[225] cumulative [games played] walked out the door last year. This is an almost complete rebuild." "[The other other Tigers] have quietly had one of the best [groups of skill position players] in the SEC for two seasons, but now they return zero starters and must virtually start from scratch." "If you have to replace all your starters, expect to have a rough time. This is especially true when you're in the SEC. They're going to have to hope they learn quickly before getting into the meat of the schedule." "[The other other Tigers] return no starters among the skill position players." "No starters return. Hope the quarterbacks like [dropped passes]." -- They still have Sasser and Hunt, but that was a lot to lose.
SEC Wide Receiver/TE Rankings - Rocky Top Talk
The Reason I Have A 49-Star Flag
14. Mizzou
"Just losing too much for me to think they'll be as good [out wide] as they were last season."
"[225] cumulative [games played] walked out the door last year. This is an almost complete rebuild."
"[The other other Tigers] have quietly had one of the best [groups of skill position players] in the SEC for two seasons, but now they return zero starters and must virtually start from scratch."
"If you have to replace all your starters, expect to have a rough time. This is especially true when you're in the SEC. They're going to have to hope they learn quickly before getting into the meat of the schedule."
"[The other other Tigers] return no starters among the skill position players."
"No starters return. Hope the quarterbacks like [dropped passes]."
Ranking the SEC Receivers - And The Valley Shook
10 MIZZOU - Lost their top three receivers, including one of the best players in the conference. The Dorial Green-Beckham loss is a killer because it was so unexpected. They went from set to disarray.
11. Missouri Tigers This would have been one of the best groups in the league had Missouri not been forced to dismiss Dorial Green-Beckham, but as it is, it's a very so-so group. That's how much Green-Beckham meant to this offense.
12 Missouri - It really just all came crashing down for Missouri's receiving corps. One year they have three of the top fifteen receivers in the conference. The next, zero.
12. Missouri. Lost DGB, L'Damian Washington, and Marcus Lucas. Of Missouri's 31 receiving touchdowns those three accounted for 48% of them. Bud Sasser and Jimmie Hunt come on down.
If anyone wants to reassure me that the WR position won't be a problem for Mizzou next year, now would be a good time to start formulating your argument.
Some of our SBN associates also posted their depth charts so I rounded them up.
Initial impressions:Unsurprisingly, the team is not yet ready to name a starting quarterback indicative of the "or". Maxwell Smith doesn't seem to be a factor at this point.Stoops' signees account for the starter at every skill position. If Drew Barker starts then seven of the eleven starters would have signed after December 2012 going off this depth chart.
This depth chart is from the 2014 Media Guide distributed at SEC Media Days. Things will look different after Fall Camp when incoming freshman who did not enroll early are added.
We're still six or so weeks away from football, but today we get our first glance at the depth chart–which yes, will surely change between now and August 30th–for the 2014 football season.
Overall, it's way too early to make any firm judgments with a month of practice left. This is mostly the status quo, but it's interesting to see how the coaches have the players slotted at this point. I think I'm most surprised to see Quantavius Leslie atop one of the receiver spots, considering how he's failed to impress. John Diarse received some positive buzz this Spring, so I thought for sure he'd be the other starter out wide.
Hoo boy. This is all getting a bit too real. South Carolina has named a former walk-on as its starting cornerback. Sure, Steve Spurrier issued Sidney Rhodes all of the plaudits he normally doles out to the overachieving, scrappy types, but make no mistake about what Sidney Rhodes is. He has come into this position thanks to attrition and poor roster management at the cornerback position, not because he's a sunken treasure brought to the surface by the Head Ball Coach.