Hugh Freeze scored one of the coups of Signing Day '16 when he slipped into Dan Mullen's backyard and pilfered blue chip wideout A.J. Brown from Starkville High. Could one of Brown's 2017 teammates be next?
Four-star linebacker Willie Gay recently told Scout.com that "I feel like I'm home when I go [to Oxford]." True, he said the same about Starkville, but that's to be expected—it's literally his home, after all. That he's saying the same thing about Ole Miss at least opens the door for the Rebels to lure another defection. For what it's worth, 247Sports' Director of Recruiting Steve Wiltfong Crystal Ball'd Gay to Ole Miss earlier this week, though the overall numbers still favor State, 67 percent to 37 percent.