• 10 months ago
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00:00 So Ole Miss on the defensive front is in a very unique situation because
00:05 they signed the best player in the history of the transfer portal to sign in Walter Nolan.
00:12 They signed the potential best pass rusher in the transfer portal in Princely Iman Mee-Ellen.
00:17 He signed and you have some returners coming in like JJ Pegues and
00:24 Jared Ivy as well to go along with some backups and an excellent top five worthy
00:31 high school class that got brought in.
00:33 Ole Miss is legitimately looking at like 12 or 13 deep on the defensive line.
00:38 They're not going to play that many people, but we're going to talk about them right now.
00:43 We're going to start with the transfer players that Ole Miss brought in this season.
00:48 And let's start with Walter Nolan.
00:50 He was an interior defensive lineman who transferred in from the Texas A&M Aggies,
00:56 the former top recruit in the 2022 class.
00:59 Nolan began to live up to that hype in his sophomore season.
01:04 He had seven sacks this past year, tied for third among SEC interior defensive linemen,
01:11 as did his eight tackles for a loss.
01:13 He placed fourth among SEC defensive tackles with a 9.9 pass rush win rate as well.
01:20 Nolan is staying within the conference and will play at Ole Miss.
01:24 Now, the other transfer that was big name that was brought in is Princely Iman Mee-Ellen.
01:30 Iman Mee-Ellen was one of eight FBS edge defenders to record a higher pass rush win rate
01:36 than Scortron, Scalton this season, placing seventh in that department at 22.2%.
01:44 He is also eighth among Power Five edges in pressure rate.
01:48 This year, Iman Mee-Ellen will join Walter Nolan at Ole Miss on the defensive line as well.
01:53 Those are the two big names that Ole Miss brought in.
01:56 And what you have a situation is two elite players have brought in that you basically move
02:04 to the top of your defense.
02:06 Now, J.J. Piggies, everybody knows what type of player he can be.
02:10 He's extremely athletic, a really good defensive lineman.
02:13 Now he gets to be the number three option on that defensive line,
02:16 maybe the number four option depending on how you look.
02:19 When you look at players that are coming back,