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LOOK: Two-sport Ole Miss standout Austin Simmons made his Swayze debut Sunday

Ben Garrettby:Ben Garrett•02/25/24•

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Ole Miss LHP Austin Simmons

Ole Miss football has weeks yet until it opens spring football practices.

But second-year quarterback Austin Simmons is already bringing the heat. 

OK, so he’s not slinging the pigskin around. But Simmons, who doubles as a pitcher for Rebel baseball, still showed off his arm in his Swayze Field debut on Sunday. 

Ole Miss used 16 hits, including five home runs, to destroy High Point, 25-2. The Rebels scored 11 runs in the first inning — their most since 2018 — and got back to .500 on the season (4-4) with the second of back-to-back run-rule wins.

Simmons was one of four pitchers used on the day. He allowed one run on two hits with a strikeout in an inning pitched. He also covered an inning in last weekend’s season-opening split in Hawaii. Simmons has a 4.50 ERA. 

Simmons is a former four-star football prospect in the 2025 class.

However, last June, he skipped two classes and enrolled at Ole Miss as a 17-year-old freshman. He was ranked as the No. 265 recruit in the country.

Simmons passed for 3,161 yards and 24 touchdowns as a high-school sophomore. He had just nine interceptions and ran for an additional three scores. Simmons hit .365 and drove in 16 runs in baseball. He was 4-1 with a 2.65 earned run average.

Ole Miss has two midweek games this week: Little Rock (Tuesday, 4 p.m. CT) and Missouri State (Wednesday, 4 p.m. CT). Photos by Ole Miss Athletics.

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