{"id":435148,"date":"2024-11-11T17:14:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T22:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/?post_type=article&#038;p=435148"},"modified":"2024-11-11T17:14:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T22:14:42","slug":"mizzou-loses-key-offensive-starter-to-season-ending-injury-per-report","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/mizzou-football\/mizzou-loses-key-offensive-starter-to-season-ending-injury-per-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Mizzou loses key offensive starter to season-ending injury, per report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri center Connor Tollison will not play for the remainder of the 2024 season due to an injury he suffered in Week 11 against Oklahoma, according to a report.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s per ESPN&#8217;s Pete Thamel, who notes that Tollison is regarded as one of the nation&#8217;s best centers. He&#8217;s also an extremely experienced player who has amassed 34 starts for the Tigers during his time in Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>Per Thamel, Tollison is dealing with a knee injury:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sources: Missouri redshirt junior center Connor Tollison is out for the rest of the season with a knee injury, which he suffered against Oklahoma on Saturday. He\u2019s one of the country\u2019s top centers, as he\u2019s started 34 games for Missouri and is considered an NFL Draft prospect. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EayCPSa5re\">pic.twitter.com\/EayCPSa5re<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeteThamel\/status\/1856088664331399268?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This is a huge loss for an offense that&#8217;s already dealing with more than its fair share of injuries. Quarterback Brady Cook missed Missouri&#8217;s win over Oklahoma due to multiple injuries and his status going forward is uncertain.<\/p>\n<p>Against the Sooners on Saturday, Tollison was replaced by redshirt senior Drake Heismeyer. He earned a block grade of 67 for his efforts on Saturday from Pro Football Focus \u2014 good enough for the second-highest mark on the team in that contest. He played a total of 26 snaps.<\/p>\n<p>Missouri&#8217;s offense averaged just 3.8 yards per play in the win over Oklahoma. The Tigers will be hoping for better play out of that unit going forward.<\/p>\n<p>Missouri will travel to face South Carolina on the road in Week 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri received some bad news about one of its best players on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":356456,"featured_media":382112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","tags":[],"class_list":["post-435148","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_types-news","teams-mizzou-football"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/435148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/356456"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}