M.J. Daniels part of top 20 Ole Miss signing class
On the morning of National Signing Day, M.J. Daniels was still considered to be a Mississippi State commit, but all the while Ole Miss was laying down the full court press from the shadows.
By the time the 4-star recruit signed his national letter of intent, MSU was caught in the crosshairs of a classic signing day flip.
Ole Miss Head Coach Lane Kiffin is calling it ‘merry flipmas,’ having secured the nation’s 18th best signing day class according to 24/7 Sports, the highest for the Rebels since their fifth ranked class in 2016.
Daniels was previously committed to Ole Miss much earlier in the process and at the end of the day he just went with his gut. “I mean I was really locked in with State, but people were steadily contacting me every day and it was getting stronger and stronger with the recruitment on me and I just finally broke in, told him I was going to go ahead and come. Get on the Kiffin Train.”
Head Coach Lane Kiffin said, “Really good player, really good late get. And to have those papers while everybody else was watching his press conference was pretty exciting. That’s why we don’t push for early commitments. Which if you look at us a month or two ago, I’m sure that everybody thought we sucked and can’t recruit so there’s kind of a plan when you’ve been doing this long enough. So, we don’t care about early commitments, and a number of our guys that signed had told us a long time ago they were coming and we told them not to put it out, so it’s all game until they sign.”
Daniels is one of 23 signees, more than half of those coming from the defensive side, and for good reason with Ole Miss ranking third in the FBS in total offense and dead last in total defense.
Kiffin says Daniels can play corner, safety, and nickel, with a little bit of offense and special teams mixed in.
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