Rommel Mageo is 2,350 miles from where he played football last season. The 6-foot-2-inch, 233 pound linebacker loves competition, and he was willing to travel across the country to chase it at the highest level – in the SEC.
He spent his first four years at Oregon State, redshirting his freshman season. He compiled 157 career tackles, including 87 last year, but with one year of eligibility remaining as a graduate transfer, Mageo wanted to venture elsewhere.
Ole Miss was thin at linebacker and desperately needed that void filled.
“They kind of came out of nowhere,” Mageo said of Ole Miss.