Mizzou Football completes practice No. 3 of fall camp

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

Mizzou Football has officially closed the book on practice No. 3 of the team's 2024 fall camp. Eli Drinkwitz and company began the afternoon inside the Stephen's Indoor Facility for the open media period of practice before moving outside to the team's practice fields.

You can watch extended highlights of MU's third practice of fall camp, which features a bit of an emphasis on the defensive side of the ball, in the video player below.

First-year Mizzou defensive coordinator Corey Batoon is in the midst of his first fall camp as the leader of the MU defense. At last Sunday's media availability, Batoon emphasized the mindset heading into camp and how he plans to leave his mark on the program's self-proclaimed Death Row Defense.

"Fundamentally, how are we getting better. How's our tackling techniques getting better, how's my pass rush technique getting better, am I doing a better job in terms of my eye progression? Those are really the kinds of things that we really try to peel back," Batoon said. "Day in and day out, how am I getting better as a player?"

"Death Row has always been about, first and foremost, stopping the run," Batoon said. "At the end of the day, you got to make an offense single-handed. Taking care of the run has always been about what we are, and then, confusing and hitting the quarterback. These are the fundamentals that Coach Drink has set up. This is how he wants his defense to look: stopping the run, confuse and hit the quarterback, being situationally elite."

With Wednesday's action in the books, the Tigers now have 14 practices left for this year's fall camp.