@MizzouFootball’s Frazier, Rountree Earn Weekly Conference Honors
11/13/2017 10:38:00 AM | Football
Frazier earns SEC Co-Defensive Lineman of the Week; Rountree earns Co-Freshman of the Week
COLUMBIA, Mo. – On the heels of Mizzou Football's dominant 50-17 win over Tennessee last weekend, a pair of Mizzou Football standouts earned SEC weekly conference honors, announced Monday by the league office. Senior DE Marcell Frazier (Portland, Ore.) was named SEC Co-Defensive Lineman of the Week and freshman RB Larry Rountree III was named SEC Co-Freshman of the Week.
The award for Frazier is his second SEC Defensive Lineman of the Week award after taking home to the award following Mizzou's win over Arkansas to close the 2016 season. Rountree earns an SEC weekly honor for the first time in his career. Mizzou has now won five SEC weekly conference honors this season and has a winner in back-to-back weeks after senior S Anthony Sherrils (Kansas City, Mo.) earned SEC Defensive Player of the Week last Monday.
Frazier ended his home career in style, as he notched a pair of quarterback sacks (14 yards in losses), and added two other QB pressures as #DLineZou wreaked havoc all night in the Volunteer backfield. He finished with 3.0 tackles overall, two of which were QB sacks. His sack total bumped his season number to 5.5, which ranks 12th in the SEC.
Rountree continued his outstanding rookie season by running for a career-high 155 yards with one touchdown to help key Mizzou's win over Tennessee. He averaged 8.6 yards per rush on 18 attempts, and had arguably the key play of the game, when he raced 64 yards to the Tennessee eight-yardline with less than a minute left in the first half, and the game tied at 17-apiece. That gallop led to his eventual one-yard TD run with just 18 seconds left in the half, and jump started the Tigers into scoring 33 unanswered points as they pulled away in the second half.
Rountree's five rushing TDs in 2017 are the most among all SEC freshmen, and he has the second-most rushing yards among SEC freshmen, with 524, trailing Florida's Malik Davis by only two yards. Rountree also ranks fifth in the SEC in kickoff returns, with an average of 25.2 yards per attempt.
Mizzou is arguably one of the nation's best stories right now, winning four in a row, the nation's No. 11 active win streak and the SEC's second-best active win streak. Mizzou is looking to become just the 13th team in FBS history to reach a bowl game after starting a season 1-5. Since 2001, each SEC team that has started 1-5 has never won more than three games, until this season as Mizzou now has five.
The Tigers will look to earn bowl eligibility Saturday at Vanderbilt (4-6, 0-6 SEC). Kickoff is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on SEC Network. For all the latest on Mizzou Football, stay tuned to MUTigers.com and follow the team on Twitter (@MizzouFootball) and like the team on Facebook and Instagram (Mizzou Football).
