Elijah Dotson

We- this is definitely a game where your safeties have to have their eyes in the right places because if they're one step late, it can be seven on the scoreboard really fast for Ole Miss.

So, uh, we, we've seen an elevation in Greco's play and Elijah Dotson's play.

Santana Banner's been pretty consistent, you know? So, uh, the safety play had to improve, but it seems to have improved over the past two weeks, but big, big test this Saturday.

Yep.

Uh, Kenzley Luther-Fauston 61 snaps.

Elijah Dotson.

So that, they're, they've kind of figured out those three in the secondary.

Trojan Greco played 53.

They fired all their graders.

Elijah Dotson, number one, a 69.3. Best grade for Trajan Greco.

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Elijah Dotson missed a tackle.

Trajan Greco missed a tackle.

And the first pick was huge.

You get a tip from, uh, Elijah Dotson.

Or no, you get a tip from Trejan Greco, who, who tips it to Elijah Dotson, who makes the, who, who catches it and gets the, uh...

Nice ca- oh, he dropped it.

Um, who gets the pick on the first drive of the game after Austin Simmons' first pick of the season.

You know, shout out to, to Robbie Meyer.

Um, that's a really nice catch by Cam Coleman.

You got plays from your safeties in Trejan Greco and Elijah Dotson.

Uh, Nick Rodriguez, 40 snaps.

Uh, Elijah Dotson, 38 snaps.

Kinsley Luter-Faustin, one of the MVPs of Saturday's game.

He was unreal, 36 snaps, three and a half tackles for a loss from, from like, your, your star spot is incredible.

And back to the gridiron, and also Trajan Greco, a much-talked-about player after the Troy game.

One thing I said about Greco is that who is the obvious replacement for him? If indeed he needs fewer snaps at the free safety position, The one player I identified as a possibility is Elijah Dotson, and I was actually maybe more on to something than I realized as Dotson actually played 17 snaps as the free safety against Kansas and also 29 against Troy this past week.

So that does seem to be a bit of a trend there to be certain while Greco is is out there with Dotson as they're both essentially free safeties, I would suppose, in a couple of two deep options, which, well, as I said, as I've said a couple times here this week, I certainly would have gone with that option at the end of the first half.

half instead of having Greco as the single high but also that was from some of those notes there from Cody Goodwin by the way over at Power Mizzou Goodwin had some good stuff on the tight end usage as well which pointed out that Norfleet Brett Norfleet that is is almost never a pass blocker so far this season now he'll get his face in there in the run game But if it's a passing play, you're not leaving him in in protection whatsoever.

But who is what then do you do? What's who is the replacement? Because to me, as I watch Missouri play football so far, there is no obvious replacement on the back end of this defense.

Perhaps it is Elijah Dotson who played more last week.

Perhaps he could be an option as a free safety.

But it sure seems to me like the Dotson, like the rest of these Missouri safeties other than Greco, the ones that they're playing a lot, whether it is Louis Dore, Faustin or, you know, any of the others, of course, Santana Banner as well.