OFFICIAL: Ole Miss Signs JUCO 2024 LB Raymond Collins on Early Signing Day

The Ole Miss Rebels added JUCO 2024 linebacker Raymond Collins on Early Signing Day.

Ole Miss continued its busy Early Signing Day by inking JUCO 2024 linebacker Raymond Collins. 

Collins is an in-state find for coach Lane Kiffin and the Rebels. The former Gulfport (Miss.) Harrison Central star, now at Jones College, and was the fifth in-stater to pop for Lane Kiffin's program in the class.

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The linebacker recruit, who totaled 46 tackles, including seven for loss and 2.5 sacks as a freshman at JC in 2022, was a quick pledge for the Rebels. Collins announced his pledge to the program after spending time in Oxford over the back in March.

Collins should have two-plus years of eligibility remaining after his junior college career wraps up. The 6-foot-1, 238-pound prospect bolsters a linebacker unit undergoing plenty of change in town under new defensive coordinator Pete Golding.

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Southern Miss, Arkansas State and Akron also offered Collins as a junior college prospect. He was courted by South Alabama early in his recruitment as well, but the Rebels jumped in before the end of January. From that point, it was about setting the spring visit and after that it was a matter of when and not if Collins would be on board.

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