As if facing Alabama on the road weren’t challenging enough, Odom said Tuesday that Missouri will likely be without its best pass-catching weapon. Wide receiver Emanuel Hall, who didn’t travel to the team’s game at South Carolina last week, is not expected to recover in time to take the field Saturday. Hall strained his groin prior to Missouri’s matchup at Purdue in Week Three, then tried to play through the pain against Georgia but didn’t catch a pass. Odom said Hall isn’t yet back to full speed.

“It’s not because of a lack of effort from Emanuel or our sports medicine staff,” Odom said. “They’ve done absolutely everything that they can to try to get him right and back there.”

Aside from Hall, Odom expects Missouri to take the field against Alabama at full strength. Despite the fact that Brown didn’t participate in Tuesday’s practice, instead exercising alongside Hall separate from the rest of the team, Odom believes Brown will suit up Saturday. Offensive linemen Trystan Colon-Castillo and Kevin Pendleton, both of whom left the South Carolina games with injuries, were limited participants during Tuesday’s practice, but Odom expects both to be “full speed and ready to go” against Alabama.

Pendleton, who left the South Carolina game in the second quarter and did not return, did not specify the nature of his injury Tuesday, but said he could have returned to the field if he felt the team needed him.

“If I needed to go, if we needed me to be out there, I'd have gone out there and I would have played the game and we'd have done what we had to do,” Pendleton said. “But I had complete confidence in Case (Cook). It's a long season and I want to make it to the end."

Odom also said he expects wide receiver Richaud Floyd to make his season debut Saturday. Floyd missed the first five weeks of the season after he broke a bone in his right leg during fall camp.