Inside Ole Miss Football's Top Transfer Portal Class Amid Pete Golding's Rebuild

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Pete Golding and nan Ole Miss Rebels are rolling successful nan NCAA Transfer Portal pinch nan programme flaunting an embarrassment of riches connected some sides of nan ball.

Once nan portal model opened for business, Golding and Co. instantly went to activity pinch nan Rebels now holding 20 commitments via nan free supplier marketplace pinch 5 Top-100 signees crossed nan two-week window.

Ole Miss presently holds nan No. 2 rated people successful America pinch 20 pledges - and are 1 spot down nan LSU Tigers pinch nan programme having a whopping 36 commitments to this point.

The value that Golding and nan Rebels person reeled successful has been awesome to this constituent pinch a franchise quarterback, top-five wide receiver, and top-five cornerback signed to nan program.

Who's signed pinch nan Ole Miss Rebels to this constituent successful nan program's No. 2 rated class?

Courtesy of Ole Miss Rebels Football.

Three Names to Know: Transfer Portal Edition

No. 1: QB Deuce Knight - Top Signee

The erstwhile five-star signal-caller checks successful arsenic a Top-10 backmost successful nan NCAA Transfer Portal pinch nan Ole Miss coaching unit securing nan program's early astatine nan position aft locking him successful aft a visit.

Knight signed pinch nan Auburn programme arsenic nan No. 5 rated signal-caller successful nan 2025 Recruiting Cycle, but aft 1 play connected The Plains, elected to deed nan free supplier market.

The 6-foot-4, 217-pounder earned offers from nan likes of nan Auburn Tigers, Georgia Bulldogs, Ole Miss Rebels, Colorado Buffaloes, and Alabama Crimson Tide, among respective others, crossed his clip connected nan prep scene.

Now, he's Oxford bound aft making his move, but Knight is conscionable 1 of nan awesome dominoes that person fallen successful favour of nan Rebels.

Auburn Tigers backmost Deuce Knight (9) walks disconnected nan section aft nan crippled arsenic Auburn Tigers return connected Mercer Bears astatine Jordan-Hare Stadium successful Auburn, Ala. connected Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025. Auburn Tigers defeated nan Mercer Bears 62-17. | Jake Crandall/ Advertiser / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

No. 2: WR Darrell Gill Jr. - Top Wide Receiver

After spending 3 seasons pinch nan Syracuse Orange, Gill has made nan move to deed nan Transfer Portal pinch 1 play of eligibility arsenic aggregate SEC schools pique his interest.

The 6-foot-3, 190-pounder retired of nan Lone Star State signed pinch nan Syracuse programme arsenic unranked imaginable successful nan 2023 Recruiting Cycle wherever he's quickly blossomed into a apical wideout astatine nan collegiate level.

This past season, Gill appeared successful each 12 games for his ACC programme - finishing pinch 32 catches for 506 yards and a career-high 5 touchdowns. It marked nan 2nd consecutive play that he eclipsed nan 500-yard people aft posting 570 yards a twelvemonth agone arsenic a sophomore.

No. 3: CB Jay Crawford - Top Signee connected Defense

Auburn Tigers transportation Jay Crawford checks successful arsenic nan No. 4 rated cornerback successful nan marketplace pinch nan Rebels wasting nary clip successful securing his services aft getting him successful for a sojourn connected Saturday.

The 5-foot-11, 180-pounder is coming disconnected of a beardown sophomore run connected The Plains wherever he logged 4 walk breakups and an interception to spell on pinch 13 full tackles pinch Auburn.

Across 2 seasons, Crawford totaled 11 passes defended and a brace of interceptions wherever he carved retired a domiciled arsenic a captious constituent successful nan protect backfield.

He would extremity up starting successful 18 games, pinch nan accolades galore coming his measurement during his clip pinch nan programme - chiefly during his existent freshman run - earning SEC All-Freshman and On3 True Freshman All-American honors.

Dec 27, 2024; San Diego, CA, USA; Syracuse Orange wide receiver Darrell Gill Jr. (82) celebrates aft catching nan shot against Washington State Cougars during nan 2nd half astatine Snapdragon Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Abe Arredondo-Imagn Images | Abe Arredondo-Imagn Images

The Transfer Portal Additions [20]:

Jay Crawford – Auburn (CB)
Keaton Thomas – Baylor (LB)
Jonathan Maldonado – Nevada (EDGE)
Sharif Denson – Florida (CB)
Jeheim Oatis – Colorado (DT)
Michai Boireau – Florida (DT)
Carius Curne – LSU (OL)
Edwin Joseph – Florida State (S)
Brady Prieskorn – Michigan (TE)
Deuce Knight – Auburn (QB)
Cameron Miller – Kentucky (WR)
JT Lindsey – LSU (RB)
Joenel Aguero - Georgia (S)
Troy Everett - Oklahoma (OL)
Walker Howard - Louisiana-Lafayette (QB)
Isaiah Spencer - Virginia Tech (WR)
Darrell Gill Jr. - Syracuse (WR)
Tah'j Butler - Georgia Tech (LB)
Jordan Renaud - Alabama (DL)
Blake Purchase - Oregon (EDGE)