Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze raised a lot of eyebrows when he chose to pull the redshirt off highly touted freshman quarterback Shea Patterson with only three games to go.
That’s when the season ended for Chad Kelly, the starter in an often-explosive Rebels offense, because of a torn ACL.
Freeze said he considered other options – there weren’t many – but played Patterson because it gave the Rebels the best chance to win. It did, but that decision had to be made with several factors in mind. Among them was what the decision would mean for Patterson as an individual.