Missouri Tigers bolster O-line with addition of transfer tackle from Arizona St.
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- Mizzou signed transfer tackle Josh Atkins from Arizona State with one season left.
- Atkins brings 39 consecutive starts and experience at three prior programs.
- Portal additions including Luke Work aim to fill eight O-line vacancies for 2026.
A well-traveled offensive lineman will make his final collegiate stop in Columbia.
Former Arizona State tackle Josh Atkins committed to coach Eli Drinkwitz’s Missouri Tigers football team on Thursday, he announced via Instagram. Atkins has one season of eligibility remaining.
Listed at 6-foot-4 and 310 pounds, Atkins has started 39 consecutive games as a tackle dating to 2023, when he was at Hawaii. Atkins spent the 2024 and 2025 seasons at ASU.
The former three-star recruit also played at Houston in 2021 and 2022. Although he didn’t play a snap there, UH is where a Mizzou connection can be found. Atkins played under current MU offensive line coach Brandon Jones, as Jones was the O-line coach at Houston from 2019 to 2022.
Atkins is the second offensive lineman Mizzou has acquired from the transfer portal this cycle. On Wednesday, the Tigers earned a commitment from former Mississippi State offensive lineman Luke Work, who has decent experience at every position along the offensive line except center.
If either Atkins or Work is named MU’s starting left tackle by the start of the 2026 season, that would allow Cayden Green to move back to left guard, where he was a regular starter for MU in 2024 and at Oklahoma in 2023. Green played left tackle this past season, which he hadn’t done since his first game at OU in 2023.
Like several other position groups, the offensive line was a major need for Mizzou entering the portal window, as eight O-linemen from the 2025 roster either ran out of eligibility or entered the transfer portal.
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This story was originally published January 8, 2026 at 1:38 PM.