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Missouri added immoderate much-needed extent astatine nan moving backmost position Tuesday, bringing successful Xai’Shaun Edwards from FCS Houston Christian.
Edwards visited Mizzou nan time anterior earlier yet committing to nan Tigers. He besides had visits planned to Cal, UConn and UTSA.
The 5-foot-9, 175 lb moving backmost ran for 1,019 yards and 12 touchdowns pinch 5.3 yards per transportation successful 2025, earning him First Team Freshman All-American honors from Phil Steele. He besides added 18 receptions for 106 yards and averaged 28.9 yards connected 10 footwear returns.
Edwards will person 3 years of eligibility remaining aft playing arsenic a redshirt freshman this season. The League City, Texas, autochthonal was a three-star enlistee retired of precocious schoolhouse and held an connection from MU alongside Oregon, Houston and Texas Tech, among others.
He had occurrence successful his 1 crippled against an FBS force successful 2025, rushing for 82 yards connected 13 carries against Nebraska successful Lincoln. Edwards scored nan team’s only touchdown successful that crippled connected a 45-yard run.
Mizzou returns its prima duo astatine moving back, Ahmad Hardy and Jamal Roberts, but nan Tigers mislaid a trio of players astatine nan position — Marquise Davis, Brendon Haygood and Tavorous Jones — to nan transportation portal, leaving them short connected depth.
Edwards will springiness MU much knowledgeable extent to brace pinch its returning starters and incoming freshman Maxwell Warner, a three-star signee from Whitney Young High School (alma mater of Dennis Gates and unit photographer Hannah Henderson) successful Chicago.
Mizzou has recovered occurrence bringing successful non-FBS moving backs earlier — specifically, erstwhile Truman State Bulldog Cody Schrader. While nan Tigers aren’t apt to expect nan aforesaid record-breaking level of accumulation from Edwards, Hardy’s anticipated departure aft adjacent play arsenic a apical draught imaginable could unfastened up a much important domiciled for nan Houston Christian transportation successful nan future.
