Mizzou / South Carolina Post-Game Notes
TEAM NOTES
- With DB T.J. Warren and LB Brandon Lee making their first career starts on Saturday, the Tigers now have 26 first-year starters this season, which leads the nation and is seven ahead of the next-closest SEC team.
- Mizzou’s defense tallied a season-high nine tackles-for-loss as a team, with eight of those coming in the first half alone.
- With redshirt sophomore TE Kendall Blanton’s touchdown catch in the third quarter, Mizzou has thrown five touchdowns to a tight end for the first time since 2010.
INDIVIDUAL OFFENSE
- Freshman RB Damarea Crockett rushed for a 29-yard score in the second quarter. The rush was Crockett’s eighth trip to the end zone, breaking Mizzou’s freshman touchdown record, previously held by Brad Smith (7, 2002).
- Crockett’s eight rushing touchdowns are the most by a Mizzou tailback since Russell Hansbrough racked up 10 rushing TDs in 2014.
- Crockett has recorded a rush of at least 20 yards in seven of his first nine career games.
- Junior RB Ish Witter rushed for a 25-yard touchdown in the second quarter. It was Witter’s longest rush of the 2016 campaign and the longest touchdown run of his career.
- Blanton secured his third career touchdown reception with a leaping grab in the third quarter, the most TD grabs by a Mizzou tight end since Michael Egnew had three in 2011.
- Blanton matched his career-high with four catches and finsihed with a career-high 42 receiving yards.
- Redshirt freshman WR Richaud Floyd snagged a 37-yard reception in the fourth quarter. It was the longest catch of his career.
- True freshman WR Dimetrios Mason matched his career-high with eight catches, totaling 88 receiving yards.
INDIVIDUAL DEFENSE
- Redshirt sophomore LB Brandon Lee and redshirt freshman DB T.J. Warren made their first career starts on Saturday.
- Redshirt junior LB Eric Beisel now has 5.0 TFLs over the last two games, posting 2.0 against South Carolina. He had just 0.5 in his career before this span. He tallied a career-high 14 tackles, tied for the most tackles in a game by a Mizzou player this season (Thomas Wilson - 14 vs. LSU).
- Lee also totaled a career-high 11 tackles. The redshirt sophomore collected his second career sack and his second in as many games. He also matched his career high with 2.0 tackles-for-loss.
- Beisel and Lee became the sixth and seventh different Tigers to record 10+ tackles in a game this season, joining T.J. Warren, Cam Hilton, Donavin Newsom, Michael Scherer and Thomas Wilson.
- Junior DE Charles Harris posted two sacks vs. USC. He now has 5.5 total sacks and a pair of multi-sack games this season and 14.5 sacks in his career. With Saturday’s two sacks, Harris passed current NFL standouts Jacquies Smith and Kony Ealy on the program’s career sack list and now ranks 17th all-time.
- Sophomore DB Cam Hilton recorded his first career sack in the second quarter, collecting his second career tackle-for-loss
