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There's some ugliness, like uncharacteristic patterns within the Tigers' run game and the quarterbacking numbers. There are some positives, like edge rusher production and some marathon performances on defense.

All of that, plus complete snap counts, is below.

If this is your first PFF rodeo, or you just need a reminder: PFF is not perfect in its grades, as you'll notice soon enough. They're just a convenient, simple way to quantify player performances — and nothing more. Rest assured nobody on the MU coaching staff is making decisions based on PFF grades.

The site bases all of its grades, including college ones, on an "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.

With that in mind, this week's findings:

Offensive line

• LT Cayden Green, 56 snaps, 62.8 grade
• LG Dominick Giudice, 56 snaps, 67.4
• C Connor Tollison, 56 snaps, 68.5
• RG Curtis Peagler, 56 snaps, 59.1
• RT Keagen Trost, 56 snaps, 70.6

There was better synergy between the offensive line and quarterback Beau Pribula, and the 11 pressures allowed by the O-line were less than the 12 given up in Week 2 against Kansas. Three were deemed the responsibility of Trost, while the lone sack blamed on the line was attributed to Peagler.

Green returned from his two-game absence to start and play the whole game, but clearly was not trusted by the coaching staff to help much in run blocking. Of the Tigers' 21 designed runs, only four went to the left and none went outside of Green. On the opposite side of the line, for example, Mizzou ran the ball off Trost's outside shoulder nine times. 

On a day where there was broader bemusement about MU's run-game choices, that's another wrinkle.

Quarterback

• Beau Pribula, 56 snaps, 52.9 grade

Not a good grade and not a good day for Missouri's first-year starter. For all of the MU coaching staff's talk of accuracy, he completed just 57.1% of his passes and has posted completion percentages below 60% in both of the Southeastern Conference games he's played in.

Pribula took 3.44 seconds to throw the ball, on average, which is by far the longest tally of the season. The only games in which he's been above 2.7 seconds in time to throw were Alabama and South Carolina (3.06), which is where the struggle to complete passes came in to play.

The Crimson Tide rarely blitzed, only sending extra rushers on seven of Pribula's 34 dropbacks. Instead, they seemed content to let him throw. With clean pockets, Pribula went 12 for 22 for 123 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions.

Running backs

• Ahmad Hardy, 31 snaps, 61.1 grade
• Jamal Roberts, 26 snaps, 70.7 grade

Hardy was head-scratchingly limited in this game by Mizzou's abandonment of the run, and he posted his season-low rushing total: 52 yards. Somehow, according to PFF, he posted 53 yards after contact. Maybe it's a glitch, or maybe he ground out all of his yards and then some after taking hits.

For one brief stretch of the game, Hardy was back in the locker room, but that didn't lead to all that much usage for Roberts, either. The latter's lone carry of the second half was the fake punt.

Receivers and tight ends

• TE Brett Norfleet, 52 snaps, 70.1 grade
• WR Marquis Johnson, 49 snaps, 54.7
• WR Joshua Manning, 41 snaps, 58.8
• SR Kevin Coleman Jr., 29 snaps, 51.9
• TE Jordon Harris, 20 snaps, 44.9
• WR Donovan Olugbode, 15 snaps, 85.9
• SR Daniel Blood, 7 snaps, 54.8
• WR Xavier Loyd, 2 snaps, 60.0

If there's an offensive positive to be gleaned from this game, it's Olugbode, who finished as MU's leading receiver with a late flurry of catches to try to lead a miraculous comeback. He caught all three of his catchable targets, including one that was contested. 

Coleman's 2 receiving yards is his lowest-ever output in an FBS game. He was targeted only three times. 

Norfleet continued to be a solid piece of the receiving game, with three catches on four targets and 22 of his 38 yards coming after the catch.

Defensive line

• DT Chris McClellan, 50 snaps, 69.3 grade
• DE Damon Wilson II, 52 snaps, 74.4
• DE Zion Young, 51 snaps, 61.5
• DT Sterling Webb, 47 snaps, 62.8
• DT Marquis Gracial, 29 snaps, 73.7
• DE Langden Kitchen, 24 snaps, 70.8
• DE Darris Smith, 23 snaps, 61.1
• DT Jalen Marshall, 20 snaps, 61.4
• DE Nate Johnson, 8 snaps, 75.2

It's performances like this one that show why Mizzou was so eager to add Wilson out of the transfer portal from Georgia. He notched five quarterback pressures, two of which were sacks and made a 7-yard tackle for a loss in pass coverage. That's high-end production from one of the SEC's best edge rushers.

McClellan managed four pressures of his own, while Young posted three and a sack. Playing 60 snaps is an impressive workload for McClellan, a 323-pound defensive tackle who'd never played more than 37 in a game this season.

Linebackers

• Josiah Trotter, 70 snaps, 69.4 grade
• Nicholas Rodriguez, 33 snaps, 64.8
• Khalil Jacobs, 33 snaps, 79.2
• Triston Newson, 21 snaps, 74.3

On the QB pressures train, Trotter registered four and a sack while Jacobs added two and a sack: a solid day's work of blitzing from the linebackers.

As a group, these four didn't miss a tackle, which is always solid.

Rodriguez, level on snaps with Jacobs, played more than usual, at least relative to the rotation here. His speed seemed to help with chase-down situations.

Defensive backs

• STAR Daylan Carnell, 77 snaps, 76.4
• S Jalen Catalon, 62 snaps, 76.7
• CB Stephen Hall, 57 snaps, 58.0
• S Santana Banner, 56 snaps, 67.8
• CB Drey Norwood, 56 snaps, 62.7
• CB Toriano Pride Jr., 43 snaps, 55.3
• S Trajen Greco, 21 snaps, 60.0
• S Marvin Burks Jr., 14 snaps, 53.8

This was Carnell's best game of the season, with five tackles and a low passer rating allowed when targeting him. He was only off the field for one defensive snap, which is also impressive.

After Burks was ejected for a targeting penalty, Banner came in and also impressed. He was targeted four times but only allowed one catch, which came on a perimeter play behind the line of scrimmage. 

Missouri continues to rotate its cornerbacks, though Hall and Norwood seemed to be the preferred tandem.

As a whole, the secondary was improved in that it held Alabama quarterback Ty Simpson to 200 hard-won yards and did not concede much via complete coverage breakdowns.