Recruiting misses are hard to determine for the Missouri Tigers. Despite their recent success on the field, the Tigers’ recruiting classes over the last few seasons haven’t been spectacular in regard to rankings. They always are rater lower than most of their fellow SEC teams, making it difficult to say a three-star recruit was a “miss.”

But in 2012, the Tigers pulled in the nation’s No. 1 recruit — wide receiver Dorial Green-Beckham.

Unfortunately for Missouri, whatever promise he showed on the field during his time in Columbia was outweighed by the trouble he brought with him off-the-field.

When Green-Beckham arrived at Missouri in the summer of 2012, big things were expected out of him. And why wouldn’t there be? At 6-foot-6, 220-pounds, Green-Beckham was supposed to be the next playmaking receiver in college football.

It took him a while to get comfortable with the Tigers. He had a slow start to his freshman season, but shortly after the midway point, Green-Beckham came into his own.

In his final five games as a freshman, Green-Beckham racked up 21 receptions for 267 yards and four touchdowns. He finished fourth on the team in receiving as a freshman.

2013 was a different story for Green-Beckham. He carried the late season momentum of his freshman year into his sophomore season and was immediately one of the Tigers’ biggest receiving threats. His biggest game came against Kentucky where he recorded four receiving touchdowns in a seven reception, 100-yard performance.

All-in-all, Green-Beckham was the team’s second-leading receiver as a sophomore with 883 receiving yards and 12 touchdowns. The future was bright for Green-Beckham as he looked poised to deliver on his No. 1 recruit expectations.

But throughout all of this success on the field, Green-Beckham couldn’t stay out of trouble off the field.

In 2012 he missed a game due to a marijuana arrest, which he later pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of trespassing. In January of 2014, Green-Beckham again was arrested for marijuana, but avoided any charges.

The worst of the incidents came in the Spring of 2014, when Green-Beckham accused of breaking into a woman’s apartment in order to talk with his girlfriend. The woman also accused him of pushing her down some stairs. No charges were filed against Green-Beckham out of fear of retaliation, the woman said.

Shortly after the incident, Green-Beckham was indefinitely suspended from the team, but was later dismissed altogether by head coach Gary Pinkel.

It was an unfortunate end to what could have been a promising collegiate career at Missouri for Green-Beckham, but in the end the baggage he had with him was too much for the Tigers to handle and he failed to impact the program like many believed he would as the nation’s No. 1 recruit.