{"id":435235,"date":"2024-11-12T13:45:08","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T18:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/?post_type=article&#038;p=435235"},"modified":"2024-11-12T13:45:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T18:45:08","slug":"eli-drinkwitz-confirms-season-ending-injury-for-key-offensive-performer","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/mizzou-football\/eli-drinkwitz-confirms-season-ending-injury-for-key-offensive-performer\/","title":{"rendered":"Eli Drinkwitz confirms season-ending injury for key offensive performer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eli Drinkwitz confirmed on Tuesday that center Connor Tollison would miss the rest of the season because of a leg injury.<\/p>\n<p>Missouri&#8217;s head coach knows what a rock Tollison was for the Tigers, and he knows it&#8217;ll be tough sledding the rest of the way having to play without the junior. Drinkwitz said Tollison is &#8220;as good a center as we&#8217;ve had here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Eli Drinkwitz confirms that center Connor Tollison is out for the season due to a leg injury. Says Tollison was &quot;as good a center as we&#39;ve had here.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brandon Zimmerman (@BZSEC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BZSEC\/status\/1856397810612261004?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Tollison was injured during the 2nd half of last Saturday night&#8217;s home victory over Oklahoma. The key offensive lineman had to leave the field and couldn&#8217;t put any weight on one of his legs.<\/p>\n<p>Tollison&#8217;s season-ending injury is also a blow because he&#8217;s been so durable for Missouri, having started 34 games at center for the Tigers. Tollison is a big-time prospect for next spring&#8217;s NFL Draft, so he just might have played his final game in Columbia. The extent of Tollison&#8217;s injury and his potential recovery time is not certain at this point.<\/p>\n<p>Tollison was replaced in the game by redshirt senior Drake Heismeyer, who earned Drinkwitz&#8217;s praise on Saturday for his play in relief of Tollison. Missouri outlasted Oklahoma in a wild 30-23 comeback victory to improve to 7-2.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers head to South Carolina on Saturday for a showdown with the Gamecocks at 4:15 p.m. ET on SEC Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eli Drinkwitz had some bad news to report about one of Missouri&#8217;s key players on the offensive side of the ball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269106,"featured_media":401509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","tags":[],"class_list":["post-435235","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\/435235"}],"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\/269106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}