Damore’ea Stringfellow was supposed to be in the NFL.
That was the plan, at least, when he announced two years ago that he was skipping his senior year at Ole Miss to enter the league’s 2017 draft. Big, strong and athletic, he’d emerged from the shadow of Laquon Treadwell to become the Rebels’ top wideout in 2016. Seen as a potential sleeper because of his 6’2 frame and big-play ability, Stringfellow was projected as a fifth- or sixth-round pick.
But Stringfellow also had an arrest record. A former five-star recruit, he’d transferred to Ole Miss after being kicked off the team at Washington for assaulting two people in 2014, one of them a woman.