DJ Lagway reportedly taking more visits before official commitment; SEC team interested
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DJ Lagway might be reconsidering the choice for his 2026 collegiate destination that was thought to be final.
The former Florida quarterback, who spent 2 seasons in Gainesville, “is planning to continue to take visits before officially committing,” according to a report on Friday afternoon by ESPN’s Pete Thamel. The ESPN report also mentioned an SEC rival that could be interested in Lagway for next season — Ole Miss, whose magical 2025 season ended on Thursday night and who found out on Friday that star QB Trinidad Chambliss was denied his waiver attempt for another season of eligibility.
“One program that has consistently expressed interest is Ole Miss,” according to Thamel’s report.
There is another twist in Thamel’s report, which said that Lagway “had a positive visit to Baylor earlier this week.” That would be the same Baylor program that supposedly got a commitment from Lagway on Thursday, according to a report by On3’s Hayes Fawcett.
But with Thamel’s report a day later, the Lagway sweepstakes might have just reopened, with Baylor not set in stone for Lagway, after all.
Lagway is a Texas product, and his reported commitment to Baylor made sense because Waco is about 150 miles from home for Lagway. He had also visited Florida State during his transfer recruitment, so there was the possibility that Lagway would transfer to UF’s most bitter rival for the 2026 season.
A 5-star recruit, Lagway came to Florida with big-time expectations, but he left Gainesville only with questions about what he could do at the college level. And one day after that next stop seemed like Baylor, Lagway’s services are still reportedly up for grabs for the upcoming fall.
With Ole Miss’s sudden big question mark at the quarterback position, there could be a spot waiting for Lagway in Oxford.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
