Last Friday night, about 24 hours before Ole Miss’ defense was obliterated by Alabama on national television, a 6’0, 220-pound cruise missile of a linebacker was laying similar waste to opponents on a high school football field about an hour’s drive northwest of Oxford. Nakobe Dean, the consensus top recruiting prize in the state of Mississippi, put on his customary pageant of otherworldly athleticism during a road game in Lake Cormorant.
Ranked the 15th best prospect in the entire country, Dean is the type of game-changing athlete around which Rebels head coach Matt Luke could rebuild his decaying defense.