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As we've done for every Missouri football game this season, the Monday after merits a look through the advanced stats and grades provided by Pro Football Focus. 

In case this is your first time, or you want the reminder: These grades come from PFF, not this writer. They're at times misaligned with what happened on the field, and certainly not as important of a metric as the final score.

PFF bases all of its grades, including college ones, on NFL standard: 90-100 is elite, 85-89 is Pro Bowl caliber, 70-84 is starting level, 60-69 means backup and anything between 0-59 is replaceable. Want to assign different labels to those number ranges? Go for it. Nobody will know.

Offensive line

• LT Marcus Bryant, 71 snaps, 82.3
• LG Cayden Green, 71 snaps, 60.4
• C Drake Heismeyer, 71 snaps, 63.8
• RG Cam'Ron Johnson, 71 snpas, 67.0
• RT Armand Membou, 71 snaps, 62.3
• OL Mitchell Walters, 6 snaps, 55.8

These grades seem low for a game during which the offensive line allowed just one pressure — a hurry that didn't even touch Brady Cook. Johnson was deemed responsible for that. PFF didn't seem as pleased with the run blocking effort, though Bryant graded out well in that, too. The only game this season in which the left tackle had a better grade was against UMass. Overall, chalk these grades up to some weirdness from the computer.

Quarterback

• Brady Cook, 71 snaps, 64.1

Cook's completion percentage took a dip in the snow, which you'd expect. He threw farther downfield than normal, with an average depth of target of 9.8 yards and a little bit longer time to throw. Deep passes weren't particularly effective in the conditions, though: He completed only one of his eight passes thrown 10 or more yards downfield, and that was an 11-yard completion. One of those plays, in fairness to Cook, was a drop by wideout Luther Burden III.

Arkansas, which often uses three high safeties, blitzed rarely — on just 21.7% of Cook's dropbacks. He completed three passes against the blitz for 21.3 yards per attempt. 

Running back

• Marcus Carroll, 36 snaps, 79.0
• Nate Noel, 18 snaps, 54.4
• Jamal Roberts, 17 snaps, 55.7

Carroll got more work with the snowy conditions, and his bruising style paid off. Of his 90 rushing yards, 47 came after contact. Half of Carroll's runs were zone scheme and half were gap runs. 

As a team, the Tigers ran to the left side 23 times and the right side 21 times. The most effective gap was between Heismeyer and Green — the center and left guard, respectively — which netted 5.4 yards per attempt, two first downs and a touchdown. 

Wide receivers & tight ends

• WR Theo Wease Jr., 61 snaps, 70.9
• WR Joshua Manning, 48 snaps, 56.1
• WR Luther Burden III, 45 snaps, 55.1
• TE Brett Norfleet, 45 snaps, 65.3
• TE Jordon Harris, 41 snaps, 45.5
• WR Mekhi Miller, 21 snaps, 54.2
• WR Marquis Johnson, 14 snaps, 57.8
• WR Daniel Blood, 2 snaps, 58.5
• TE Tyler Stephens, 1 snap, 60.0

This hierarchy has been in place for a while, though Manning saw more snaps than Burden because of heavy two-tight end usage. When a second tight end comes onto the field for Mizzou, Burden, the slot receiver, tends to come off. Norfleet spent about 36.8% of passing snaps lined up in the slot, which was interesting. 

Wease forced three missed tackles after the catch — likely coming from his 70-yard catch-and-run touchdown. 

Defensive line

• DE Johnny Walker Jr., 62 snaps, 76.2
• DT Kristian Williams, 54 snaps, 59.7
• DE Zion Young, 46 snaps, 66.6
• DT Chris McClellan, 43 snaps, 61.0
• DT Sterling Webb, 27 snaps, 65.0
• DE Eddie Kelly Jr., 24 snaps, 69.5
• DE Jahkai Lang, 10 snaps, 70.5
• DT Jalen Marshall, 8 snaps, 46.6
• DT Marquis Gracial, 1 snap, 59.3

Walker was a merchant of chaos, forcing two fumbles and registering seven quarterback pressures. He hit Arkansas QB Taylen Green three times. Williams was next on the pressures list with four. Kelly also notched a sack. 

Linebackers

• Triston Newson, 65 snaps, 70.9
• Corey Flagg Jr., 48 snaps, 58.4
• Chuck Hicks, 12 snaps, 33.6
• Nicholas Rodriguez, 4 snaps, 70.3

Newson was an ironman, playing a heavy load of snaps and being involved in 10 tackles. He was targeted heavily in the pass game, allowing seven catches. Newson was also the most frequent non-lineman pass rusher. 

Defensive backs

• CB Toriano Pride Jr., 71 snaps, 64.8
• CB Dreyden Norwood, 71 snaps, 61.5
• STAR Daylan Carnell, 59 snaps, 67.1
• S Joseph Charleston, 50 snaps, 67.5
• S Marvin Burks Jr., 40 snaps, 71.1
• S Tre'Vez Johnson, 32 snaps, 67.9
• STAR Sidney Williams Sr., 23 snaps, 62.6
• S Caleb Flagg, 20 snaps, 68.8
• CB Nicholas Deloach Jr., 11 snaps, 43.5

Pride fully reclaimed the cornerback role that has oscillated between him, Deloach and a split of both. The Hogs targeted Pride four teams but didn't complete any of those passes — in part because he broke two of them up. 

Burks, Norwood, Williams and Charleston also registered pass break-ups. The latter two sealed the game on Arkansas' final drive.