COLUMBIA, Mo. – Mizzou Football junior QB Drew Lock (Lee’s Summit, Mo.) is the SEC Co-Offensive Player of the Week, announced Monday (Nov. 27) by the league office. Monday marks Lock’s second SEC Player of the Week award after earning the distinction on Sept. 3 following Mizzou’s season-opening win over Missouri State. Lock threw for five touchdowns and 448 yards while resetting the school and SEC single-season passing touchdown record in a 45-42 win at Arkansas last Friday (Nov. 24).
Lock went 25-for-42 and helped the Tigers erase a 14-point deficit twice in the win over the Razorbacks. His third TD pass of the game went to freshman TE Albert Okwuegbunam, giving him 41 passing TDs on the year. That passed Kentucky’s Andre Woodson (40 in 2007) for the most ever TD passes by an SEC quarterback. He also passed Chase Daniel (39 in 2008) for the Mizzou single season record. His 43 passing TDs lead the nation and he is the first SEC quarterback this century to pass for at least three TDs in eight straight games.
Lock’s five-touchdown performance Friday gives him six such games in his career and a national-best four this season. He has more five-touchdown games than any SEC quarterback in the last 20 seasons (Tim Couch is second with five from 1996-98). Only four Power 5 QBs have ever thrown for more TD passes in a single season (BJ Symons, Sam Bradford, Graham Harrell (twice), Kliff Kingsbury) than Lock’s 43. All five did so in 13 or more games. His 43 TDs this season rank 23rd in NCAA history. Lock’s 448 yards at Arkansas also give him five career 400-yard games, also a school record.
Against Arkansas, Lock Engineered two fourth-quarter TD drives that erased Arkansas leads, and then capped the day by driving the Tigers 75 yards in the final five minutes that ended with a game-winning 19-yard field goal with just :06 seconds left in the game to account for the final score as MU won its sixth-straight game. In the fourth quarter, Lock was a sterling 7-of-9 passing for 127 yards and two TDs that led to the win. He was 3-for-3 in the final period on third down for 43 yards and one touchdown.
On the year, Lock leads the SEC in nine major categories while leading the nation in passing TDs (43), points responsible for (264) and passing yards per completion (16.5).
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