@MizzouFootball’s Lock Earns Manning Award Star of the Week
10/30/2017 12:07:00 PM | Football
Lock threw for 377 yards on 31-for-37 passing with five TDs
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Mizzou Football junior QB Drew Lock (Lee's Summit, Mo.) has been named a Manning Award Star of the Week for the second consecutive Monday, announced by the Manning Award committee and the Sugar Bowl. Lock is coming off of a 377-yard outing in a 52-12 win at UConn. He turned in the school's third-best completion percentage ever in a single game (31-for-37, 83.8 percent) and the best ever with more than 30 completions. Lock also threw five TDs and zero interceptions Saturday as he has helped Mizzou win its last two games.
Over his last five contests, Lock is 114-for-176 (64.7 percent) with 20 touchdowns and just three interceptions while amassing 1,668 yards. Lock now leads the nation with his 28 passing TDs this year, which are already tied for the third-most in school history. He is tied with West Virginia's Will Grier for the national lead. Lock is also second nationally in yards per completion (15.94), eighth in passing efficiency (167.8), ninth in passing yards per game (320.9) and 11th in total passing yards (2,567).
Lock now ranks third in school history with 7,298 career passing yards. He sits 1,501 yards behind second-place Brad Smith who had 8,799 from 2002-05. Lock is on pace to have 8,581 by year's end.
Lock's 55 career TD passes are also just two shy of moving into sole possession of second place all-time on Mizzou's career TD passes list.
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