To his friends and teammates, Southern defensive tackle Joseph Selders is known simply as Midnight. To his coach, defensive coordinator Terrence Graves, Selders has another handle. “He’s basically the engine of the train,” Graves said between mops of his brow on a baking Saturday afternoon in Mumford Stadium. “We tell him all the time, how he goes, we go.”
The engine has some helping horsepower. Fellow starters Frank Harry at defensive tackle, Vincent Lands and Don Holloway at ends. Plus the glorious bonus of depth, something that has been desperately lacking on Southern’s front in the past. “You don’t know what a blessing it is to have 15 defensive linemen,” Graves said during SU Media Day.
“There were times we had to do some things, like make a linebacker a defensive end, because of injuries.”
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