The SEC’s Wednesday night injury report for Saturday’s No. 22 Mizzou at No. 1 Georgia matchup came in pretty clean on both sides.
Missouri’s list is short, but it does include a significant loss: DE Langden Kitchen is out and will miss the rest of the season with a knee injury. The Tigers have four players listed as “Out” overall.
Kitchen’s season ends after 12 games and 171 defensive snaps. He finished 2026 with 17 total tackles, 3 TFL’s, 1 sack and 14 pressures. He had stepped into a full-time starting role this year after beginning his career at Northwest Missouri State and transferring to Columbia in 2025.
Georgia, meanwhile, enters the game in much better shape health-wise. Outside linebacker Amaris Williams, the Auburn transfer, is out, though he has not played this season while recovering from an ACL injury.
DT Josh Horton is questionable. Horton has seven total tackles and two sacks on the year.
The injury update arrives as Missouri tries to keep its season moving forward after the Texas loss. As Nathan Hurst wrote, “Mizzou football still has much to play for” and the Tigers still have history to chase, rivalry games to win and a foundation to build for next year.
On the Georgia side, Nate Edwards laid out a slim but real opening for Missouri in his preview, saying, “I don’t have high hopes for this game but there is a path to victory. A small one.
Super narrow. No mistakes.
Perfect ball. But it can be done.”
Elsewhere around Mizzou athletics, the women’s basketball team is back home for back-to-back tests against UT Martin and Lindenwood after its unbeaten start, with Harper pointing to rebounding and offensive execution as areas of growth while also calling for better spacing, finishing around the basket and screening. Defensively, she wants cleaner ball-screen coverage, rotations and one-on-one work.
Mizzou baseball also added to its future on National Signing Day, landing a 2027 class built around five elite in-state commitments, top out-of-state talent and an international pitching standout. The women’s basketball program added Athena Thompson and Katie Muller, while volleyball signed Lucky Fasavalu, Dani Lewis and Marlee Steiner. Rock M Radio’s Dive Cuts also recapped the Tigers’ first few games and looked ahead to non-conference opponent Marquette.
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Mizzou Gets One Huge Georgia Question And One Brutal Injury Blow
Missouri got one encouraging update and one painful setback coming out of the Texas game, with receiver Cayden Lee cleared to keep going after a knee injury and edge rusher Langden Kitchen ruled out for the rest of the season. Eli Drinkwitz said Lees knee has no structural damage, which at least keeps one piece of the offense intact as the Tigers move deeper into the stretch run.
Kitchens loss lands harder because he was part of the starting edge group and now leaves Missouri to reshuffle a defense that already has to manage the week-to-week grind of the SEC. On the other side of this matchup, Georgia is carrying its own injury uncertainty with two players on the report, including one questionable and another already done for the year, so both teams are walking into this one with more health questions than they would like. [Read more 🡒]
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Georgias edge has shown up in the details, from its turnover margin to the way it has limited opponents defensively, even while working through some injuries. Gunner Stockton has helped steady the offense, and linebacker Chris Cole gives the Bulldogs another impact presence on defense, leaving Missouri with a major challenge and plenty to solve if it wants to keep this one competitive. [Read more 🡒]
Missouris Unbeaten Start Faces Its First Real Home Test
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Now comes the first real chance to see how that start holds up at home. UT Martin and Lindenwood are next on the schedule, and both bring enough recent form and stylistic quirks to make these games more than routine tuneups, especially for a Missouri team trying to keep building rhythm while protecting its unbeaten record. [Read more 🡒]