Mizzou had to wait until pick 45 to get someone drafted this year. It didn\u2019t have to wait long until a second followed.<\/p>\n
With the 46th pick in the NFL Draft, Tampa Bay selected Josiah Trotter.<\/p>\n
Trotter chose to forego his final two years of eligibility following a standout season with MU, being named First Team All-SEC after recording 84 total tackles and 13 tackles for loss.<\/p>\n
The star linebacker was a menace stopping the run, ranking 15th in the nation with a PFF grade of 89.3 in run defense and anchoring the second level for a defensive unit that ranked in the top 10 nationally in total defense.<\/p>\n
He spent just one season in Columbia after transferring in from West Virginia, where he redshirted his first year due to injury before being named a Freshman All-American by the FWAA (Football Writer of America) and the Big 12 Defensive Freshman of the Year in 2024. Trotter was also named Honorable Mention All-Big 12 that season, when he had 92 tackles and four tackles for loss with the Mountaineers.<\/p>\n
The Philadelphia native becomes the third member of his family to join the NFL. His father, Jeremiah Sr., was an two-time All-Pro selection during his 11-year NFL career, and his brother, Jeremiah Jr., currently plays in the league and won the Super Bowl in 2024 with the Philadelphia Eagles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mizzou had to wait until pick 45 to get someone drafted this year. It didn\u2019t have to wait…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[57965,57966,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-245566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-mizzou-football","tag-mizzou-football-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}