The arrivals of Rommel Mageo and Detric Bing-Dukes offset years of recruiting deficiencies. If they can learn the defense in time, they could join DeMarquis Gates on a suddenly stout linebacking corps.
Almost exactly nine months before Ole Miss is scheduled to depart for Orlando to face the most explosive running back in the country, Hugh Freeze was wrapping up yet another National Signing Day that had failed to land a reliable linebacker prospect. Five-star linebacker Mique Juarez, who at one point was thought to have Ole Miss as his leader, left a Rebels hat on the table and signed with UCLA.