Lane Kiffin shares Matt Corral's plans for 2021
After playing a four-game redshirt season in 2018 and splitting time at quarterback with John Rhys Plumlee in 2019, Matt Corral has had a breakout 2020 season as the starter in Lane Kiffin’s high-powered offense. Kiffin shared some big news for the 2021 Rebels on Wednesday.
“Since last we talked, I did meet with Matt Corral,” Kiffin told beat reporters, per David Johnson of OM Spirit. “Just said we need to sit down and talk about (next) year, you did great and all that stuff. I’m not pushing him to stay, I just wanted him to have the information. He said, ‘I’m a thousand percent coming back, I need another year here.'”
Corral is eligible to declare for the NFL Draft as he is three years removed from high school. The redshirt sophomore is second in the SEC in passing yards per game with 343, trailing only Heisman Trophy candidate Kyle Trask (351.3). Corral is also second in total passing yards among SEC QBs, with 2,744, trailing Trask’s 2,810 mark.
Corral has an off Saturday after his Egg Bowl-record setting performance of 385 passing yards and 2 TDs in Ole Miss’ 31-24 win over arch-rival Mississippi State. The Rebels are 4-4 and looking at potential makeup games against Texas A&M and LSU on Dec. 12 and Dec. 19.
12-0 next year if we had any kind of defense. Instead we will settle for 8-4 scoring 93 points a game.
In a non-COVID world 93 ppg would get you to 15-0.
That was a joke
I know.
Corral can flat throw the deep ball, he is fun to watch.
If Corral progresses in 2021 and J.T. Daniels progresses in 2021 – both will be high round NFL draftees.
So you have to bring JT into an Ole Miss article. Sheesh. Typical UGA troll.
I see it as the SEC continuing to crank out multiple, good QB’s each season.
Last year was Burrow and Tua. This year will be Trask and Mac. Following COULD BE Corral and Daniels.
It WILL be Corral. You see our coach is an offensive genius, and so is our OC. Georgia’s is, well, not.
When ole miss wins something, anything get back with me.
Speaking of which, has ole miss ever won a SEC Championship or even a SECW title?
6 SEC Championships
3 National Championships
Sorry that you can’t see that Kirby is stuck in the past. He tries to play old school SEC football ala pre-Kiffin days Alabama, and that does not work anymore. What he has done with the talent he has had is pretty underwhelming.
What do you know – Ole Miss actually does claim 3 NC’s – 59, 60 and 62
However you left out some small details – “The major wire service polls of the time (AP Poll & Coaches’ Poll), named Syracuse the National Champion in 1959, Minnesota in 1960, and USC in 1962”
A few SEC Championships from 1947 – 1963. Isn’t that the same era as when Army and GT were national powerhouses????
I’m proud to say – all that pre-dates me by a lot of years.
And to think opposing fans attempt to bug UGA fans with “1980” and it’s been 6 decades since Ole Miss claimed a NC or won a SEC championship.
However I didn’t come here to troll and pester Ole Miss fans. I really like watching Corral and the Ole Miss offense this season, they are an exciting group to watch and I usually root for Ole Miss when they are playing. Kiffin is a good play caller no doubt, I hope he can get in a stable situation and make it all work out.
Best of luck to Ole Miss
I thought you guys were saying JT is already first round material.
But those 2 are not comparable at this point. Corral has a proven track record of excellence and consistency (apart from the Arky game) while your guy has one good game under his belt and nothing else
cojoneslicker
“I thought you guys were saying JT is already first round material”
Who has said that – cite one UGA fan that has said JT is a 1st round pick. I didn’t say that on the above post. No UGA on SDS has said that.
Daniels arm talent is undeniable, BUT, he still has to develop and continue to get over his knee injury.
“your guy has one good game under his belt” – you really showed you ignorance with that statement. You don’t even understand football at the little league level.
TDOW, one fan. Negan. He spews his novels on here all the time that JT is the best QB in the country and it’s not close.
There have been at least two articles on SDS about JT going in the first round already. The second point is valid, after setting Georgia passing records in his first game he was only given 16 attempts in his second
One is not nearly the QB as the other. Corral will start the season as a Heisman frontrunner.
I still don’t know what happened to the kid against Arkansas, doesn’t even look like the same player from that game to the rest of his year.
That was the first time he had went up against a “drop eight into coverage scheme”, and it rattled him. By the following Monday, after looking at film and listening to the coaches, he said he learned what to do going forward. He has had no issues with that scheme going forward.
Hear me out on this: believe that the PR for the Moore / Corral duo would be tremendous and could put both of them in the NCAA record books / Heisman discussion boosting the stock of BOTH players. Moore could get an insurance policy protecting what he would make if went this year. With the upcoming transfer rules OM will be able to pick up a few defensive additions that could make a few stops each game. They could be historic which you cannot buy.
There is zero reason for Moore to stay. His draft stock is too high right now to risk, especially if he continues to ball out in the last 3 games.