By JOEL COLEMAN
sports@starkvilledailynews.com
HOOVER, Ala. – For months now, a big question has hung over the Mississippi State football program. It has been a 6-foot-4, 310-pound question to be exact.
In March, then-signee Jeffery Simmons was charged with simple assault when a video surfaced of an altercation in which Simmons struck a woman multiple times. Simmons has since enrolled at MSU, but the defensive lineman from Noxubee County will have to sit out the first game of his career in addition to undergoing counseling and evaluation.
On Tuesday at Southeastern Conference Media Days from the Hyatt Regency Birmingham – Wynfrey Hotel in Hoover, Alabama, queries about Simmons and the process that led to his enrollment poured in for Mississippi State head coach Dan Mullen.