JUCO All-American/LSU transfer Deion Smith makes Ole Miss WRs room 10-deep

Talk of Champions

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🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Deion Smith is a transfer wide receiver formerly from LSU and Holmes Community College.

He was the No. 1 JUCO prospect in the country last recruiting season and a JUCO All-American. And at long last he’s set to join (read: practice with) the Rebels, according to reporting from Bruce Feldman of ‘The Athletic.’

The 6-foot-3, 203-pound Smith has seemingly been on the verge of landing in Oxford since he left LSU two years ago. Now-fifth-year Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin personally recruited him in high school.

Academic hurdles sent Smith to Holmes (Mississippi) Community College for a year. Even more coursework kept him from enrolling at Ole Miss in December and participating in spring practices. He officially reported, and physically stepped foot on campus, at Ole Miss on June 1.

The saga was far from over. He’s finally suiting up nearly two months later.

What is Ole Miss getting? Smith is joining the Rebels in their third week of preseason camp. Ole Miss opens its title-chase of a 2024-25 season August 31 against Furman.

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0:30.6	You're listening to Talk of Champions and Ole Miss Spirit podcast with Ben Garrick.
0:36.9	It's not. It's that. It's not. It's that.
0:54.2	Because I've got some. Because I've got some news. Are you sitting down?
0:58.5	I'm glad of here because I've got some news.
1:04.3	Dionne Smith, the transfer wide receiver, formerly of LSU in Holmes Community College, the number one juco prospect in the country last season.
1:09.6	A juco all-American, he's finally, finally, set to practice, according to reporting from Bruce
1:19.7	Feldman of the Athletic.
1:21.2	Now, if you've been reading the Old Miss Spirit, ohemspirit.com for any length of time over the
1:26.3	course of the Dion Smith saga, then you're well
1:29.3	aware of the significance of this news, of the bigness of this day, not only because he joins a
1:37.2	room already considered among the nation's elite. He's six foot three, two hundred and three, and he's seemingly been on the verge of landing in Ole
1:48.1	Miss since he left LSU two years ago.
1:52.0	Lane Kiffin personally recruited Deion Smith.
1:55.4	He went to LSU, but he was a rare hand-picked recruit for Kiffin over an impressive,
2:00.4	if admittedly volatile,
2:03.6	scouting career.
2:04.4	Academic hurdles sent Dionne Smith to Holmes Mississippi Community College for a year.
2:09.7	More coursework kept him from enrolling at Ole Miss in December.
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