Lane Kiffin gives blunt assessment of Jaxson Dart performance following Grove Bowl

Jaxson Dart was one of the more intriguing names to find a new home this offseason, courtesy of the transfer portal. Dart left the West Coast lifestyle at USC for life in the South with the Ole Miss Rebels. After going through the Rebels spring ball program with head coach Lane Kiffin, fans got to finally se him in action at his new home.

After the game, Kiffin gave a brutally honest assessment of Dart’s performance in the first and second half of the Ole Miss spring game Saturday night.

“Yeah, not a very good first half,” said Kiffin on Dart’s play to open the spring game. “Thought he was trying to win the job instead of just playing quarterback and forcing balls and not being very consistent. So just talk to him before the half. You know, about calming down and taking one play at a time. And I thought he did some better things in the second half.”

In his first outing for Ole Miss, Dart struggled to find any consistency. The former USC Trojan completed 11 of his 30 passing attempts for 166 yards with one touchdown and two interceptions. The only good news or silver lining for Dart is his direct competition for the starting quarterback spot, Luke Altmyer, did not look much better. In fact, the lone bright spot for the Rebels’ quarterback room was Kinkead Dent, who went 11 or 12 for 140 yards and two touchdowns in the spring game.

Ole Miss transfer target gets chauffeured by Lane Kiffin in a Rolls Royce

Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin has not been shy about making waves the past few years on social media and on Saturday night, he’s making the rounds yet again. This time, it’s because he was chauffeuring a prospect from the transfer portal, Central Florida wide receiver Jaylon Robinson.

Kiffin even noted in ESPN’s spring game coverage on Saturday that Ole Miss needed to recruit prospects from the transfer portal in unconventional ways. Well, chauffeuring prospects around in a Rolls Royce would definitely classify as unconventional. It’s bound to get a lot of buzz on social media as well.

Robinson is on his official visit to Ole Miss this weekend. In the 2018 recruiting class, Robinson was rated as a four-star prospect, according to the On3 Consensus Rankings. Before Central Florida, he started his career with the Oklahoma Sooners. Now, he’s searching for his third collegiate home.

The 5-foot-9, 180-pound junior had the best season of his career in 2020 after sitting out in 2019. He posted 979 yards on 55 catches with four touchdowns. In 2021, he had 18 catches in six games played for 322 yards and two touchdowns. He suffered a knee injury on Sept. 17 against Louisville that kept him on the sideline for five games.

For updates on where all the different college football prospects across America are headed this offseason, keep it locked to the 2022 On3 Transfer Portal Wire.