If there’s one aspect of the Ole Miss’ offense that head coach Hugh Freeze and newly acquired offensive coordinator Phil Longo won’t have to worry about this spring, it’s the receivers. The Rebels led the SEC in receiving last season with 3,779 yards from 289 catches. In fact, the Rebels, during 2016 alone, completed 40 more passes than any other team in the SEC. It’s fair to say Ole Miss has been, and probably will be for the foreseeable future, a pass team.
With Evan Engram and Damore’ea Stringfellow off to the NFL and a new offensive system currently being “installed,” as Longo prefers to call it, it’s fair to question whom rising sophomore quarterback Shea Patterson will throw to next season.