Quarterback John Rhys Plumlee flipped his commitment from Georgia to Ole Miss on Monday.
Plumlee is one of two unsigned four-star quarterback commitments in the 2019 class, Lance Legendre being the other, and announced he is now planning to sign with the Rebels on signing day, Feb. 6.
I am so Thankful! God is so good! pic.twitter.com/vI6pjQREzr
— John Rhys Plumlee (@PlumleeJohn) February 5, 2019
Ranked No. 261 overall in the 2019 class, he’s from Oak Grove high school in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and is now the second four-star quarterback in the class for the Rebels along with Grant Tisdale from Allen, Texas.
Plumlee has had an interesting recruitment in that he had been committed to Georgia since June, 2018, but started looking at other programs in December when the Georgia coaches asked him to accept a blue shirt offer.
A blue shirt is designated for an unrecruited player, which means a prospect who has not taken an official visit to that particular school and has not signed financial aid paperwork, and is not awarded a scholarship right away. The player is typically awarded a scholarship once practice begins and is then able to be counted towards the next recruiting class, helping coaches keep scholarship numbers intact for each class.
Once that happened, Plumlee took visits to Auburn, Florida State, Mississippi State and Ole Miss, but eventually committed to Ole Miss.
Plumlee is an accomplished football recruit, but is also a top-level baseball player and is planning to pursue both football and baseball at Ole Miss.
The addition of Plumlee to this class gives Ole Miss 28 total commitments for head coach Matt Luke and his staff. No longer dealing with NCAA sanctions restricting the scholarship numbers, Ole Miss currently has the No. 24 ranked class in the country only two days before signing day begins.