This is the latest in a series of stories highlighting the top 30 Mizzou athletes Dave Matter has covered in his time writing about the Tigers since the late 1990s. The series will run every day Monday through Friday.
I had a good story planned for last fall, until the Mizzou football team season went sideways and all my time got sucked into a coaching search. The 2019 season marked the 10-year anniversary of one of the most spectacular single-season performances of any football player in Mizzou history. Maybe any athlete in Mizzou history.
And when he first arrived in Columbia, we weren’t sure if it was Danario or Denario.