When people talk about this year’s Ole Miss football team, they start with the wide receivers. With at least three future NFLers, including superstar A.J. Brown, the Rebels boast what Athlon Sports deems the best wideout corps in the country.
But there’s a position group on the other side of the ball that could potentially be just as productive. Despite losing its top two players in the early rounds of the NFL Draft, the Ole Miss D-line has the talent, size and experience to be one of the SEC’s most disruptive forces in 2018.
D-line coach Freddie Roach has done a phenomenal job recruiting and developing talent along the defensive front.