Former Mizzou, Clemson QB Kelly Bryant signs with CFL squad
After his college career came to an end following the 2019 season at Mizzou, QB Kelly Bryant went unselected in the 2020 NFL Draft.
Now, he’s landed an opportunity to continue his professional career, but it won’t be in the NFL. On Tuesday, it was announced that he’d be heading north to join the Canadian Football League.
As you can see below, the Toronto Argonauts announced via Twitter that they’d signed Bryant to a contract:
Former @MizzouFootball & @ClemsonFB QB headed North
Welcome to the 6ix, @KellyB125
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— Toronto Argonauts (@TorontoArgos) February 9, 2021
The Argonauts will have some distinct Mizzou flavor this coming season, as the team also signed former Mizzou DE/LB Shane Ray recently.
Will Bryant find success in the CFL? We’ll find out this upcoming season!
He was a bust for us but wish him the best of luck.
Don’t you mean the whole team was a bust? KB got to Mizzou when the roof was starting to collapse. Besides, he played 75% of the season on a bad knee compliments of a cheap shot from Troy State.
No, KB was a bust. Bryant couldn’t pass, better teams identified it shut down the run. His wins were against:
West Virgina
SEMO
South Carolina
Troy
Mississippi
Arkansas
Matty Mauk, til he cracked was a better QB. 2018 Mizzou went 8-5. We lost Emanuel Hall (KB couldn’t have passed to him), Kendall Blanton, Nate Brown. Several O-line seniors as well but not all starters. O-line, like Bryant looked good in all those wins but horrible, particularly after the Mississippi game. Was it all Kelly Bryant’s fault? No, because he didn’t fit our offense. It was Odom’s fault because we didn’t have a QB. That’s how we ended up with KB. Baz was a true freshman and looked better than KB in his brief tenure of starting. KB was a bust at Mizzou.
In fact, the only offensive seniors we lost from the 2019 team were Odofile, Floyd, Johnny Johnson,Justin Smith, and Nance (OL not included). So offensively, Bazelak didn’t get a jump on KB this last season. And there is no way we see the success of this last season with KB, even with Drinkwitz coaching him.
Yeah after that Sterk should have broke the contract for the 2nd game. No excuse for that horse manure
not a bust, he did a lot of things with his feet, Lock couldn’t do for example. I’m being to critical of his work.
On a ten point scale of Missouri quarterbacks that started, Chase Daniel was a 9, James Franklin was a 7.5, Matty Mauk was a 5.5, Drew Lock was a 7.5, Phil Bradley was an 8, Kelly Bryant was a 4, Brad Smith was an 8,…. just a few examples. James Franklin had a decent career in the CFL.
Seriously? You put KB below Matty Mauk? Come on! Just by the mere fact that KB is not a chemical dependent makes him better than Matty Mauk.KB arrived at Mizzou when the program was in a bad position and he played hurt. What about that great defense? The defense that could not stop Kentucky when they passed the ball less than 10 times and still won by three touchdowns. It was a bad team all around in 2019.
Your point is that Mauk had a drug habit that made him look bad at the end of his tenure, absolutely right. My point is that before he slid down that slope, he played some really good quarterback (this we totally agree on)….but he stunk it up for more than one game before Lock was handed the job. So it’s odd, but his rating in my mind includes all his performances not just his peak.
Mauk hit a downward spiral. Sadly, his a story of when a talented guy cracks. Liked Lock but never felt he found his level of performance at Mizzou.
Yeah I know what you mean. If I needed to build a team around a pocket quarter-back it would be with a slightly better O line than he had and with a much faster and deeper receiving roster. Lock has a limited play-book but oh man is he good at his niche. But very few rosters are going to be accommodated just
to Lock, too bad because he has the big accurate arm few, even pro quarterbacks have.
To be fair I went back and looked at several of those QBs video, I’m dropping Lock to 7, raising Bryant all the way up to 6. I think you’re right when you say Odom’s whole recruiting and management work made the whole product and every part look a little worse. One example was the Wyoming game and i was there. The inability to raise the level of intensity to stay ahead of Wyoming’s effort and grit, was fairly viewed as the Odom fabric softener syndrome.
you are right to question this see my comment below
Good for KB. Wish he would have been better at Mizzou. But it is a team sport. 2019 was a bad team all around.
just in case I haven’t already backed up enough on this, re-read my comments. Bryant was better than Mauk at his worst and probably a little ahead of Mauk average. I moved him up to 6 on my 10 point scale.. And you are absolutely right that the Odom team product held everyone on those teams back. Odom got that job by being a popular personality with the players. But once he got the job he couldn’t shift gears to being the task-master and attitude anchor most football teams need leadership toward.
Good for Kelly, he didn’t have the best of luck landing at Mizzou with the previous staff.
Speaking of which, with Hilinski (USCar QB) still in the portal, it might not be a bad idea for MU to add some QB depth. Hilinski did a number on the vaunted Odom defense, wouldn’t be a bad idea to have a player behind Baz just in case.