There weren’t many positives to take away from the Gators’ 24-23 loss to Missouri last week, but Ty’Ron Hopper’s performance was definitely one of them.
With Jeremiah Moon sidelined with an injury, the redshirt sophomore linebacker received his second career start, and he made the most of his opportunity. He led the team with a career-high 12 tackles (11 solo), with two of his tackles resulting in losses, also a career best. His previous career high had been seven tackles.
“It felt really good,” Hopper said. “I felt like we had a really great game plan. We just had a lot of fire on defense.