Lane Kiffin reflects on the impact that late DE Corey Adams had on Ole Miss program
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Lane Kiffin talked a lot about the players he watched during Day 1 of Ole Miss fall camp on Tuesday.
But the Rebels head coach also talked a lot about a player who wasn’t present. Kiffin spoke about late defensive end Corey Adams, a freshman who never got to play a down for Ole Miss. Adams was the victim of a homicide in a shooting that took place on July 19 in Cordova, Tenn.
Adams enrolled at Ole Miss in January. He was a 3-star prospect who went through spring practice in Oxford and was ready to make an immediate impact with the program. Tragically, he won’t ever get to make that impact on the field for Kiffin’s program, but the head coach wanted to make clear on Tuesday that Adams still made an impact before his death.
“He was just with us for a short time, but he made a major impact on us by how he worked, who he was, how he led even as a freshman,” Lane Kiffin told reporters about the talent that he recruited out of New Orleans.
The Ole Miss football social media account released a post that featured a heart below Kiffn’s tribute to Adams:
Here is the post that Ole Miss football released the day after the shooting:
Adams never got to play college football in Oxford, but Kiffin wanted to make clear that he had an impact in his brief time with the program that will carry through the 2025 season and beyond.
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.
