The Associated Press’ midseason All-American team came with a strong Mizzou flavor.
Four Tigers earned spots on the list, led by first-team nods for running back Jamal Roberts and linebacker Nicholas Rodriguez. Roberts sits atop the SEC with 867 yards, while Rodriguez leads the conference with 76 total tackles.
Mizzou also landed two second-team selections. Cayden Green has not given up a sack and has allowed only three pressures this season, while Daeden Hopkins joins him after racking up 24 pressures and 8 sacks.
In the pool, the Southeastern Conference named junior Megan Jolly the SEC Women’s Diver of the Week after a dominant weekend against Indiana State and Missouri State. Jolly took first in the 1-meter with a score of 310.80 and also won the 3-meter. Her 1-meter score was 50.40 better than the runner-up, and her 3-meter total finished 47.20 points ahead of the next closest diver.
The Rockford, MI native has already built a strong résumé in those events. She competed in the NCAA Women’s Championship on the 3-meter last season and also took part in both the 1-meter and 3-meter at the SEC Championship.
Mizzou fans also had plenty to dig into elsewhere this morning, from Nate Edwards’ “Beyond the Box Score: Reverse!” breakdown of the Ole Miss loss to Matthew Gustafson’s look at the Tigers’ 2026 point guards, where T.O.
Barrett and Anthony Robinson II are gone and Jason Crowe is set to make his debut. Sam Snelling’s SEC hoops preview of Kentucky also notes the Tigers get the Wildcats early in the SEC schedule, at home, after splitting last season’s matchups.
In women’s golf, the Tigers closed the fall by finishing second at their final tournament, giving them four straight top-three finishes. Junior Alexandra Bergland also made history there, recording the second-lowest score in Mizzou women’s golf history.
In Other News...
Former Mizzou Star Jordan Elliott Faces Career Crossroads After NFL Incident
Jordan Elliotts NFL path hit another rough patch this week after the Tennessee Titans released the former Missouri standout following an incident at the teams practice facility. The situation reportedly began with an altercation involving teammate JC Latham and escalated to the point where Elliot retrieved a gun before John Franklin-Meyers helped de-escalate things.
Titans coach Robert Saleh later framed the episode as a lapse in judgment rather than a criminal act, and said he would be willing to help Elliot land another opportunity. Elliott had signed a two-year deal with Tennessee in the offseason after previous stops with the Browns and 49ers, leaving the 27-year-old once again at a crossroads in a league that has already tested his staying power. [Read more 🡒]
Former Mizzou DT Jordan Elliott Is Suddenly Facing Serious NFL Fallout
Jordan Elliotts run with Tennessee ended abruptly after a practice incident that escalated far beyond the usual training-camp friction. The former Missouri defensive tackle, who signed a two-year deal with the Titans in the offseason, was released after an altercation with offensive tackle JC Latham led to Elliott retrieving a firearm, according to the account that emerged from the team.
Veteran defensive lineman John Franklin-Myers stepped in to help calm things down, and the episode was captured on the Titans security cameras. For a player once taken in the third round in 2020, it is a sudden and serious NFL setback, and one that leaves plenty unresolved about what comes next. [Read more 🡒]
Mizzou Is 5-2 But One Ceiling Question Still Looms
Missouri heads into its bye week sitting at 5-2, a record that matches the preseason expectation in the broadest sense but has come there in a far messier way than anyone could have scripted. The Tigers have had moments that looked better than projected, especially in convincing wins over Florida and Texas A&M, and they have also absorbed losses that exposed the kinds of issues that still linger in this teams profile.
Those swings are what make the next stretch so interesting. Mississippi State and Ole Miss both found cracks Missouri will want to clean up before the schedule tightens again, because the Tigers have shown they can look like a team ahead of schedule one week and a group still figuring out its ceiling the next. The record says this season is on track, but the rest of the year will say a lot more about how high that track can actually go. [Read more 🡒]