Maybe Damarea Crockett should get the ball 51 times per game.
The freshman explained last Monday at media day that 51 carries was his career-high in high school. Crockett would run six, maybe seven times in a row before his coach called a pass. Once the pass was thrown, he got the ball six or seven times again.
He didn’t quite reach that mark on Saturday, but perhaps he should have. He ran the ball 29 times during Missouri’s loss Saturday to Middle Tennessee State for 156 yards and four touchdowns, but Mizzou’s offense still derailed itself towards the end of the game in a 51-45 defeat.