Five more former Ole Miss players were granted waivers to play immediately at their new schools Thursday, skipping the usual one-year waiting period for student-athletes who transfer schools before graduating.
Houston's Deontay Anderson, UCF's Tre Nixon, UAB's Jarrion Street, Nebraska's Breon Dixon and Georgia Tech's Jack DeFoor will all be allowed to play for their new teams in 2018. UAB and Nebraska confirmed the status of their transfer players Thursday. Attorney Thomas Mars, who has worked with most of the players through this process, confirmed that Anderson, Nixon and DeFoor were also granted their waivers.
Those players, along with Michigan quarterback Shea Patterson, left Ole Miss this winter after the NCAA cited Ole Miss for a lack of institutional control and added to the sanctions the school imposed on itself in 2016.