Brady Cook availability update: Missouri football quarterback's status on SEC report

Brady Cook availability update: Missouri football quarterback’s status on SEC report

Posted by Admin November 7, 2024 Football

After nearly two weeks in the dark, Mizzou’s starting quarterback has an official availability designation.

Ahead of Missouri football’s game against Oklahoma on Saturday on Faurot Field, starting QB Brady Cook was listed as “questionable” on the Tigers’ first SEC availability report of the week, which was released Wednesday evening.

Mizzou will publish three more reports before the end of the week.

Elsewhere on Missouri’s report, former Oklahoma and current Mizzou starting left guard Cayden Green is listed as “probable.” Starting running back Nate Noel and backup offensive guard Logan Reichert are “questionable.” Starting wide receiver Mookie Cooper and backup linebacker and special teams member Brayshawn Littlejohn are “doubtful.”

All SEC teams are required to release reports each night in the three days leading up to an in-conference matchup and one final report 90 minutes before the game kicks off. The possible designations, from most likely to play to least likely, are: available; probable; questionable; doubtful; out.

That means Cook, at least per the language of the report, is equally likely to miss Mizzou’s game against Oklahoma as he is to play.

But, it’s a better start to the week than Cook’s last appearance on an availability report, as he carried a “doubtful” designation — albeit likely with a different injury — on the Wednesday before MU faced Alabama. He was upgraded to “questionable” on the Thursday and Friday reports that week and listed as a “game-time decision” on the final pregame report.

He ended up starting the game in Tuscaloosa with what was ruled a high-ankle sprain and played until the midpoint of the second quarter, when a separate injury to his hand/wrist area ended his day.

In the event Cook cannot play, Mizzou head coach Eli Drinkwitz said that Drew Pyne will remain as the Tigers’ No. 2 option.

In two relief appearances against Auburn and Alabama, Pyne has led one scoring drive for a field goal in 13 total possessions that he started the drive. Missouri has turned the ball over five times in that span with Pyne in the game, with one fumble, one turnover on downs and three intercepted passes.

The team has mostly kept quiet on any update regarding Cook’s potential to play, with Drinkwitz always citing “competitive advantages.”

During an SEC Football Coaches Teleconference on Wednesday, Oct. 30, Drinkwitz said he expected him to be at practice and to return and play before the end of the season.

On Tuesday during his weekly availability, the fifth-year Mizzou coach again deferred to the availability report but said Cook has done “everything in his power” to be ready to play.