Which Ole Miss Football Transfer Portal Addition Will Replace Princewill Umanmielen?

Ole Miss separator rusher Princewill Umanmielen is retired of nan image for nan Rebels heading into nan 2026 play aft entering nan NCAA Transfer Portal and signing a lucrative woody pinch nan LSU Tigers connected Wednesday.

Umanmielen emerged arsenic nan No. 1 EDGE successful nan NCAA Transfer Portal erstwhile his sanction was formally placed successful nan database wherever he besides checked successful arsenic nan No. 5 wide imaginable successful nan market.

The 6-foot-5, 245-pound Texas autochthonal is caller disconnected of a beardown inferior play aft making his measurement to nan SEC - logging 45 full tackles while besides tallying a beardown 12 tackles for loss, 9 sacks, 2 walk breakups and an interception connected nan season.

Now, pinch Ole Miss' starring sack getter successful 2025 retired of nan equation for nan 2026 season, location will beryllium a operation of returning pieces and newcomers that must prime up nan slack pinch Umanmielen's accumulation now gone.

Ole Miss defender Suntarine Perkins will beryllium backmost for nan 2026 play wherever he yet vanished 1 half tackle for nonaccomplishment down Umanmielen while besides adding 4.5 sacks of his own.

Perkins will beryllium an effective portion astatine picking up nan accumulation for Ole Miss, but nan Rebels must person accumulation from their newcomers via nan NCAA Transfer Portal.

The Pair of Newcomers astatine EDGE:

No. 1: Blake Purchase - Oregon Ducks

Oregon Ducks EDGE Blake Purchase departed Eugene for nan Ole Miss Rebels wherever he signed pinch nan programme earlier this week pursuing a sojourn to Oxford.

The 6-foot-3, 245-pounder vanished nan 2025 run pinch conscionable 13 tackles, 2 sacks and an interception, but received constricted action down a star-studded Oregon Ducks protect beforehand this fall.

Purchase, a Colorado native, compiled 39 full tackles, 3.5 sacks, 2 walk breakups, and an interception crossed 3 seasons successful Eugene wherever he will now person 2 seasons of eligibility remaining astatine his adjacent destination.

Golding and nan Ole Miss Rebels inked nan coveted defender aft a stint pinch Dan Lanning's Oregon squad wherever he will now look to return his accumulation to nan adjacent level.

No. 2: Jonathan Maldonado - Nevada

The 6-foot-3, 235-pounder is coming disconnected of a 2025 play wherever he totaled 38 tackles, 9 tackles for nonaccomplishment to spell on pinch 5 sacks for his Wolfpack crew.

Maldonado's Pro Football Focus grades instrumentality retired aft finishing pinch an 85.8 walk unreserved people successful 2025 and an wide protect people of 79.5. Both of those numbers put him among nan top-five connected nan Ole Miss roster crossed nan 2025 season.

The Nevada transportation will service arsenic an integral portion of nan Rebels' protect beforehand aft a productive agelong successful nan Mountain West - now looking to return his crippled up a notch successful nan Southeastern Conference.

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