With spring’s first football game just three days away, the Ole Miss Rebels still have plenty of kinks to iron out. Perhaps the biggest question mark going into next season is how newly hired defensive coordinator Wesley McGriff plans to turn around a defense ranked 111th nationally in 2016.
The most glaring issue McGriff needs to mend before fall rolls around is Ole Miss’ dreadful run defense from last year.
Ranked 120th out of 128 college teams, the Rebels conceded a thoroughly unimpressive 246.3 yards per game. To put that in perspective, only 37 quarterbacks in all of Division 1 football threw that many passing yards per game.