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‘I love my team’: Why Mizzou’s Shawn Robinson switched from quarterback to safety
BY SOUICHI TERADA
Missouri Tigers coach Eliah Drinkwitz approached his backup quarterback Shawn Robinson about a month ago. Robinson had started the first two games for Mizzou at quarterback, the prized TCU transfer and former four-star recruit poised to take the reigns for Missouri at the game’s most important position.
But then Robinson hit some speed bumps and was eventually replaced by quarterback Connor Bazelak in the second quarter of the second game of the season. Since then, Bazelak has been Mizzou’s guy, playing just about every snap.
Robinson was set to appear in some packages to fool the opposition, but the opportunities were going to be limited.
Drinkwitz had an idea: How about playing safety?
Read more at https://www.kansascity.com/sports/college/sec/university-of-missouri/article247983115.html
BY SOUICHI TERADA
Missouri Tigers coach Eliah Drinkwitz approached his backup quarterback Shawn Robinson about a month ago. Robinson had started the first two games for Mizzou at quarterback, the prized TCU transfer and former four-star recruit poised to take the reigns for Missouri at the game’s most important position.
But then Robinson hit some speed bumps and was eventually replaced by quarterback Connor Bazelak in the second quarter of the second game of the season. Since then, Bazelak has been Mizzou’s guy, playing just about every snap.
Robinson was set to appear in some packages to fool the opposition, but the opportunities were going to be limited.
Drinkwitz had an idea: How about playing safety?
Read more at https://www.kansascity.com/sports/college/sec/university-of-missouri/article247983115.html