Missouri star linebacker Nick Bolton joined dozens of his teammates on a half-mile march to the Boone County Courthouse on Thursday. They knelt on the ground for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, the amount of time that Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on the neck of George Floyd before he died.
From there, Bolton and his Missouri teammates headed into the courthouse and registered to vote. In all, 62 members of the Missouri football team — essentially all that are back in the Columbia waiting to report to camp — registered to vote. The mass registering delivered a signature moment to a rocketing trend in college athletics in the wake of Floyd’s death, as there’s been a massive push for players to register to vote.