Kentrell Brothers impresses at Senior Bowl practices while Connor McGovern suffers injury

Here are today's Mizzou Links.

By Bill Connelly@SBN_BillC Jan 27, 2016, 5:08am CST

What's On

I'll give you one guess.

The Trib (David Morrison): Teammates take to Twitter in support of Maty Mauk

And in non-Maty news...

Senior Bowl practice is going well ... for two-thirds of Mizzou participants

Senior bowl weigh ins:

Name	Pos	College	Ht	Wt	Hand	Arm	Wingspan
Connor McGovern	OG	Missouri	6042	305	10 3/8	32	79 1/2
Evan Boehm	OC	Missouri	6022	309	10 1/4	31 5/8	78
Kentrell Brothers	LB	Missouri	6005	249	9 3/4	30 3/4	75 3/4

2016 Senior Bowl Coverage from Mobile, AL - South Practice Observations Wednesday

Connor McGovern - O-Line Missouri: After getting taken to the ground by Clemson's D.J Reader early in practice, McGovern exited the field with a hamstring injury and was reportedly taken to the hospital for an MRI. His week is likely over.

Boehm and Brothers ran into former Mizzou offensive coordinator Josh Henson.

Great 2 watch @Kentrell_Mizzou @BIGboehmTHEORY do work today at Senior Bowl. Proud of these guys! Good Luck! pic.twitter.com/yfKaP1Ao1w
— Josh Henson (@Coach_Henson) January 27, 2016

Brothers certainly caught some eyes.

Mizzou LB Kentrell Brothers: 6-0 5/8, 249 pounds. Underrated player. Had big year for Tigers. #SeniorBowl
— Chase Goodbread (@ChaseGoodbread) January 26, 2016

Kentrell Brothers moves around better than I thought he would.
— Dan Kadar (@MockingTheDraft) January 26, 2016

@matt_wells16 not sure who the big 3 are. Ragland, Smith and Jack? Give me Kentrell Brothers. So sound as a LB.
— Dan Kadar (@MockingTheDraft) January 25, 2016

Big announcement tonight

I will be announcing at 5 tomorrow
— Trystan Castillo (@TCastillo55) January 26, 2016

Castillo has been committed to Mizzou for quite a while but entertained interest from Iowa State, Minnesota, and others when Gary Pinkel announced his retirement. He by all accounts had a great visit to Columbia this weekend, and I'll be a little bit surprised if he doesn't re-up with Mizzou tonight. Of course, he's a lineman, and it feels like all Mizzou OL commits end up de-committing (sad trombone), so we'll see.

One departure in the books

Michael Fairchild confirms he is a mechanical engineering major. OL told me earlier he left #Mizzou's football team to focus on school.
— Pete Scantlebury (@PeteScantlebury) January 27, 2016

It didn't appear that Fairchild was too far up in the pecking order, so Mizzou probably isn't losing a 2016 starter here, but ... that certainly doesn't help with depth issues. By my count, that leaves Mizzou with 10 returning linemen from last season, 11 if you include twice-signed Tyler Howell.