It seems that Hugh Freeze has made a decision on Shea Patterson following Chad Kelly’s season-ending knee injury. Ole Miss plans to take the redshirt off of its five-star freshman and play him this Saturday against Texas A&M, sources have told Bleacher Report’s Barrett Sallee and The Ole Miss Spirit’s Ben Garrett. Whether that means Patterson starts over Jason Pellerin is unclear.
There are plenty of reasons why ripping a redshirt off of a true freshman quarterback at the tail end of a disappointing season could be a bad idea, not the least of which is that Patterson has never taken a single snap against SEC competition.