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2021 SENIOR BOWL WATCH LIST: Kobie Whiteside, Missouri,...Whiteside became a dominant force on the interior for Mizzou during his first season as a full-time starter as a junior...Tallied 27 tackles and a team-high 6.5 sacks for a loss of 51 yards...His 6.5 sacks are tied for the most among any returning SEC defender in 2020...Posted a pair of multiple-sack performances as a junior, both coming in SEC play. - Missouri Football

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DT Kobie Whiteside, Missouri
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09/07/20 - Larry Rountree III, Sr/2021, Missouri, 5-11, 211 (DS#13 RB) + More +

2021 SENIOR BOWL WATCH LIST: Larry Rountree III, Missouri,...Rountree III finished his junior season with 829 rushing yards on 186 carries (4.5 average), scoring a team-high nine touchdowns on the ground...Concluded his junior season with 2,748 career rushing yards, sixth-most in program history and trailing fifth-place Henry Josey by just 23 yards...Will enter his senior season needing 450 yards to become Mizzou's rushing yards leader by a non-quarterback and is just 1,541 rushing yards away from catching Mizzou's all-time career rushing leader, QB Brad Smith (4,289 from 2002-05)...His 537 career carries rank seventh-most in program history. - Missouri Football

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RB Larry Rountree III, Missouri
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09/07/20 - Tyree Gillespie, Sr/2021, Missouri, 6-0, 207 (DS#9 SS) + More +

2021 SENIOR BOWL WATCH LIST: Tyree Gillespie, Missouri,...Gillespie developed into one of the team's top defenders at one of the two safety spots during his junior season, finishing the year with 50 tackles, second-most on the team, while adding 4.0 tackles for loss, 1.0 sack, seven pass breakups, a QB hurry and a forced fumble. - Missouri Football

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SS Tyree Gillespie, Missouri
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09/07/20 - Joshuah Bledsoe, Sr/2021, Missouri, 5-11, 204 (DS#9 FS) + More +

2021 SENIOR BOWL WATCH LIST: Joshuah Bledsoe, Missouri,...Bledsoe had a strong junior season, developing into one of the SEC's best safeties, using his blend of speed and physicality to disrupt opposing offenses...Finished the year ranked third on the team with 49 tackles (35 solo) with 4.0 tackles for loss...Added a team-high 10 pass breakups with a fumble recovery and also forced fumble. - Missouri Football

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FS Joshuah Bledsoe, Missouri
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09/05/20 - Jack Abraham, rSr/2023, Missouri, 5-11, 205 (DS#999 QB) + More +

Senior quarterback Jack Abraham has always been an efficient passer. There's no indication he's lost that skill either. Abraham was 22-for-32 passing for 314 yards. He went into halftime having completed 12 of his 14 pass attempts, and one of those incompletions came on a drop. Despite the fact that Abraham has played for five offensive coordinators in five college seasons, he's still managed to put together a productive career. Given the way he started his senior campaign, it seems like Abraham could be on the way to another strong year. - Clarion Ledger

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QB Jack Abraham, Missouri
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09/04/20 - Kobie Whiteside, rSr/2022, Missouri, 6-1, 317 (DS#53 DT) + More +

Missouri defensive line coach Brick Haley lost his best player to the NFL draft, but he's not expecting any sympathy cards this season. No returning player in the conference last year totaled more than his team-high 6.5 sacks. For a defensive front that's struggled to mount a consistent pass rush off the edge, Whiteside and Elliott overwhelmed offenses up the middle. This year, Whiteside won't have the luxury of playing alongside a proven playmaker. "It's hard to find a Jordan Elliott to play with you, you know?" he said after a recent practice. "It's about trying to prove yourself. We're blessed and I'm blessed to have other teammates to help there." There is no shortage of qualified candidates to step in and play next to the 6-foot-1, 300-pound Whiteside.

Akial Byers has played all four positions across the line but could settle into a starting role at tackle for his final season. Markell Utsey, a fifth-year senior with starting experience, should be part of the rotation, along with sophomores Darius Robinson and Isaiah McGuire, who like Byers can play on the outside, too. But for the Tigers to build a front that can consistently compete in the trenches in a 10-game SEC season, they'll need another standout season from their most established player. "I'm trying to be more of a technician," Whiteside said. "When it comes down to pass rush, I've got to find my best four moves, try to refine them. Every day in practice, just keep trying, keep trying, so I can become a bit better pass rusher, a better run stopper. Hopefully, people can see that." - Post-Dispatch

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DT Kobie Whiteside, Missouri
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09/03/20 - Jack Abraham, rSr/2023, Missouri, 5-11, 205 (DS#999 QB) + More +

Jack Abraham opens his third season as the quarterback for Southern Miss. The Tulane contest last January was his 22nd career game and 21st start at QB (a 22nd start was at WR against Louisiana Tech in 2018) and he has now thrown for more than 200 yards in a game 16 times and for 300 yards or more seven times. Since the start of the 1987 season, the Golden Eagles have started 27 different quarterbacks. The three former Southern Miss QBs to make the most starts over that span include Austin Davis (45), Brett Favre (43) and Nick Mullens (41). Abraham became only the third Golden Eagle QB to reach the 3,000-yard mark in a season in 2019. Austin Davis did it three times during his career and Nick Mullens did it twice. In fact, the 3,496 yards for Abraham ranks tied for second for most passing yards in a Southern Miss single season with Austin Davis (2011). - Southern Mississippi Football

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QB Jack Abraham, Missouri
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09/03/20 - *Nick Bolton, Jr/2021, Missouri, 5-11, 237 (DS#2 ILB) + More +

Bolton's progression hasn't slowed with a new position coach, DJ Smith, who came to Missouri with Eli Drinkwitz after being on his Appalachian State staff. If anything, having fresh eyes on Bolton might be exactly what he needs in 2020, people that can nitpick what he's doing after a career season. "He looks like the guy," Missouri defensive coordinator Ryan Walters said. "Nick Bolton is Nick Bolton, and that's all he needs to be for us. He's picking up right where he left off last year and the guys behind him are following suit as well." With Missouri's 4-2-5 defensive system not changing, that truly means one linebacker starting spot is up for grabs, with Bolton almost guaranteed to feature for the team.

Tigers such as Chad Bailey, Devin Nicholson and Aubrey Miller are competing for the starting outside linebacker position vacated by Garrett, with Cameron Wilkins and Nicholson taking over as starters for the final seven games of 2019. Whoever plays beside Bolton will draw comparisons to the Frisco, Texas native from a year ago: an experienced player taking a larger role next to an established starter and one of the best the Tiger have to offer. "I think he looks good...the biggest thing with him is just being consistent, being more of a vocal leader and just being that same guy day in and day out," Smith said of Bolton. - Columbia Daily Tribune

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ILB *Nick Bolton, Missouri
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08/29/20 - Blaze Alldredge, rSr/2022, Missouri, 6-1, 225 (DS#23 ILB) + More +

2020 PRESEASON ALL-CONFERENCE USA TEAM (COACHES): LB Blaze Alldredge, Sr., Rice,...The winner of the George Martin Award as the Owls MVP in 2019, Alldredge earned consensus All-Conference USA honors last season after compiling 102 tackles (21.5 for loss). He led C-USA and was tied for second nationally with an average of 1.79 TFL per game while his 21.5 tackles for loss were tied for the C-USA lead and for second nationally. Alldredge's 27 plays resulting in a loss (16 solo, 11 assists) led the nation. Over a quarter of his 102 tackles resulted in losses (27 of 102, 26%). - Rice Football

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ILB Blaze Alldredge, Missouri
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08/27/20 - Jack Abraham, rSr/2023, Missouri, 5-11, 205 (DS#999 QB) + More +

2020 PRESEASON ALL-CONFERENCE USA TEAM (COACHES): QB Jack Abraham, R-Sr., Southern Miss,...Abraham last season became only the third Golden Eagle QB to throw for over 3,000 yards in a season. The third-year starter from Oxford finished the year with 3,496 passing yards, tying him with Austin Davis (2011) for the second-most passing yards thrown in a season. His passing efficiency of 144.48 for the year is third-best for a Golden Eagle quarterback in a season, while his 275 completions ranks as fourth-most. - Southern Miss Football

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QB Jack Abraham, Missouri
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08/25/20 - Blaze Alldredge, rSr/2022, Missouri, 6-1, 225 (DS#23 ILB) + More +

A trio of standouts headline the list of 2020 preseason Conference USA Football award winners, as chosen by the league's 14 head coaches. Marshall redshirt junior RB Brenden Knox was selected as the C-USA Offensive Player of the Year, WKU senior DE DeAngelo Malone was tabbed to repeat as the Defensive Player of the Year, while WKU redshirt senior P John Haggerty earned Special Teams Player of the Year accolades.

Marshall and North Texas had the most overall preseason selections with five, while Louisiana Tech listed four and Southern Miss, UAB and WKU each produced players comprising three spots. Eight schools had multiple players named to the squad. The league's 25th football season is scheduled to begin on Thursday, September 3. The 16th annual Conference USA Football Championship Game, pitting the champions of the East and West Divisions, is slated for Saturday, Dec. 5. - Conference USA Football

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ILB Blaze Alldredge, Missouri
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08/24/20 - Joshuah Bledsoe, Sr/2021, Missouri, 5-11, 204 (DS#9 FS) + More +

As Missouri football struggled on offense much of the 2019 season, the Tigers' defense gained experience and helped keep several games close. Defensive standouts like Jordan Elliott, Cale Garrett and DeMarkus Acy have gone on to the NFL, but a few stalwarts from a year ago have returned to Columbia and loom large for the Tigers as they prepare for a pandemic-altered, Southeastern Conference-only schedule this year. Perhaps the biggest luxury the Missouri defense has going into the 2020 season is its safety duo of Joshuah Bledsoe and Tyree Gillespie, who feed off each other in a way that benefits the Tigers' last line of defenders. Bledsoe is projected as the starting strong safety, while Gillespie has switched to the boundary safety position, vacated by Khalil Oliver and Ronnell Perkins, which is designed to free him up to move all over the field depending on formation.

MU defensive coordinator Ryan Walters said Friday the battle for the starting free safety position is between Columbia native Martez Manuel and redshirt freshman Jalani Williams. Missouri's 4-2-5 defense, implemented over the course of the past two seasons, is now the norm for the Tigers. That structure wouldn't hold together as well without the maturity and experience of Gillespie and Bledsoe. "I think they can be the best safety tandem in the SEC and in all of college football as well," Missouri linebacker Nick Bolton said. "You got two very athletic guys, very smart guys, stocky safeties...They got more experience from last year to this year with a different type of scheme. And then, adding on from last year to this year, I feel like they're going to have two big years. "They're essential for us being good on defense." - Columbia Daily Tribune

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FS Joshuah Bledsoe, Missouri
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08/22/20 - *Nick Bolton, Jr/2021, Missouri, 5-11, 237 (DS#2 ILB) + More +

Missouri football fans have plenty to worry about these days. Will a COVID-19 outbreak on campus or within the locker room jeopardize the season? Will the Southeastern Conference keep pushing to play this fall? Will the Tigers' brutal schedule slow down Eliah Drinkwitz's recruiting momentum? Here's one concern fans can scratch off their list: Nick Bolton isn't going anywhere - for now. Bolton might be the best college linebacker whose team plans to play in 2020 - Alabama's Dylan Moses is his top competition in the SEC - but the way things have unfolded in recent weeks, nobody should have been surprised had Bolton considered sitting out the upcoming season to prepare for the NFL draft.

As of Friday, nearly 80 college players had opted out for 2020, including 13 in the Southeastern Conference. Bolton made it clear after Friday's practice: He's opting in. "Personally I've not had any conversations about opting out," he said on Zoom. "I feel I've got more to prove as a team, as a unit, this coming season. So I've just been taking every day trying to get a little bit better, trying to help my teammates get better and hopefully September 26, we kick off at 100 percent." - Post-Dispatch

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ILB *Nick Bolton, Missouri
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08/22/20 - *Nick Bolton, Jr/2021, Missouri, 5-11, 237 (DS#2 ILB) + More +

Missouri's Nick Bolton might be the best college linebacker who appears in games this fall - he's at least in the discussion - but the way things have unfolded in recent weeks, nobody should have been surprised if he considered looking ahead to the NFL draft and sat out the 2020 college season. As of Friday, a reported 77 players have made that decision, including 13 in the Southeastern Conference. Not Bolton. The junior linebacker said Friday he hasn't had any conversations about not playing this season.

"I feel I've got more to prove as a team, as a unit, this coming season," he said on Zoom after Friday's practice. "So I've just been taking every day trying to get a little bit better, trying to help my teammates get better and hopefully September 26, we kick off at 100 percent." Linebackers coach D.J. Smith, a former NFL player who spent parts of four seasons with the Packers, Texans and Panthers, said he never talked to Bolton about sitting out this year. "Nick's a competitor," Smith said. "He's a grinder. And as far as I'm concerned, he's here, day in and day out, working for us to win a championship." - Post-Dispatch

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ILB *Nick Bolton, Missouri
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08/20/20 - Jalen Catalon, rSr/2026, Missouri, 5-10, 205 (DS#8 SS) + More +

Arkansas redshirt freshman defensive back Jalen Catalon is going to miss some practice time after having a procedure to repair meniscus on a knee, sources told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Catalon is expected to miss about four weeks following the procedure. The 5-10, 189-pounder from Mansfield, Texas, was one of the top signees in the Razorbacks' 2019 signing class. He is expected to compete for playing time at safety. Catalon had major knee surgery as a prep senior at Mansfield Legacy High and needed shoulder surgery late in his redshirt season at Arkansas last year. - Northwest Arkansas Times

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SS Jalen Catalon, Missouri
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