Ole Miss Football Lands Six Players on Coaches Preseason All-SEC Team

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – (Release) Ole Miss football ended up with six all-conference honorees on the Coaches Preseason All-SEC team unveiled on Thursday.

Three Rebels earned first-team status: senior wide receiver Tre Harris, junior defensive tackle Walter Nolen and senior tight end Caden Prieskorn. Senior defensive end Princely Umanmielen landed on the second-team, while senior running back Ulysses Bentley IV and senior defensive end Jared Ivey were selected to the third-team.

Tre Harris

This is the latest honor for Harris, who is already a Biletnikoff Award watch list member, a second-team preseason All-American by both the Associated Press and The Sporting News, and a preseason media first-team All-SEC selection. The Lafayette, Louisiana native enters his second year at Ole Miss after a breakout campaign last fall that saw him nab 54 catches for 985 yards and eight touchdowns – four of which came in his first game as a Rebel against Mercer to break the single-game school record. His 213 yards vs. Texas A&M also ranks as the sixth-best game in Ole Miss history, making him the lone Rebel receiver all-time and one of five in the FBS since 2021 with both a 200-yard game and four-touchdown game receiving.

Harris’ eight scores rank tied for sixth in the Ole Miss single-season records, while his 985 yards rank seventh. Harris ended 2023 within the SEC top-10 in receiving touchdowns (fourth), yards per reception (fourth, 18.2), receiving yards (fifth), receiving yards per game (fifth, 82.1) and receptions per game (ninth, 4.5). Combined with his time at Louisiana Tech, Harris begins the 2024 campaign with 160 receptions, 2,502 yards and 22 touchdowns receiving in his college career.

Walter Nolen

This is the seventh preseason honor for Nolen, who was also a first-team All-SEC selection by league media members, a second-team Preseason All-American by The Sporting News, and is on additional watch lists for the Walter Camp Award (national player of the year), Bronko Nagurski Trophy (national defensive player of the year), Outland Trophy (best interior lineman) and Lombardi Award (outstanding lineman).

Nolen – a unanimous five-star transfer and the nation’s No. 2 overall transfer according to both On3 and Rivals – is in his first season at Ole Miss after transferring from Texas A&M this past offseason. Nolen appeared in 22 career games for the Aggies, including 10 starts on the defensive line in 2023. The former prep Under Armour All-American registered 37 total tackles last year with 8.5 tackles for loss and four sacks as a sophomore.

Caden Prieskorn

Prieskorn – a Mackey Award watch list member and media preseason All-SEC first-team selection – was a second-team member of the Coaches All-SEC team after a strong first season with the Rebels in 2023, capped by a spectacular performance in the Peach Bowl that earned him Offensive MVP honors. Despite missing the first three games due to injury, Prieskorn ended the year with a final line of 30 catches for 449 yards and four touchdowns – a big portion of which came in the Peach Bowl against Penn State. In Atlanta, Prieskorn exploded for an Ole Miss bowl game record 10 receptions for 136 yards and two touchdowns and a two-point conversion. In 2023, Prieskorn led all SEC tight ends with 14.97 yards per reception.

Princely Umanmielen

Umanmielen – a member of the Bednarik Award preseason watch list – enters his first season at Ole Miss as another key addition in the Rebels’ No. 1 rated transfer class. The senior defensive end comes to Oxford from Florida, where he had a career season with the Gators in 2023 with 39 tackles while leading the team in both TFL (11.5) and sacks (7.0). The 2023 All-SEC second team honoree also registered a team-high 17 quarterback hurries. In his four-year career with Florida, Umanmielen amassed 24.5 tackles for loss and 15 sacks in 45 career games.

Ulysses Bentley IV

Bentley – a preseason media third-team All-SEC selection and a member of the Doak Walker Award and Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award watch lists – is in his third season as a Rebel and is coming off a full season of action after missing more than half of the 2022 campaign due to injury. Bentley ended 2023 with 540 yards rushing and four scores on 95 total carries, while also adding 87 yards and a touchdown through the air on 11 total receptions. Additionally, Bentley handled the majority of kickoffs for the Rebels last season, returning 14 kicks for 272 yards.

In his Ole Miss career, Bentley owns 976 all-purpose yards and nine total touchdowns, and combined with his time at SMU he enters 2024 with 2,172 total rushing yards, 23 rushing touchdowns, and 2,967 career all-purpose yards.

Jared Ivey

Ivey enters his third season as a mainstay on Ole Miss’ defensive line and is coming off a career season of wreaking havoc for the Rebel defense in 2023. Ivey notched career-highs in tackles (46), tackles for loss (11.5) and sacks (5.5) while adding two fumble recoveries and a pass breakup on the season. He led the Rebel defense in TFL and was tied for the lead in sacks, and one of his two fumble recoveries proved crucial in Ole Miss’ 37-20 victory at No. 22 Tulane, scooping up Khari Coleman’s fourth-quarter sack fumble and scoring from 26 yards out. Ivey was a one-man wrecking crew for the Rebels in the Peach Bowl as well, earning Defensive MVP honors after notching five tackles, 2.0 tackles for loss, one fumble recovery, one QB hurry and a pass breakup in the win over the Nittany Lions.

2024 PRESEASON COACHES ALL-SEC TEAM

FIRST TEAM
Offense
QB – Carson Beck, Georgia
RB – Jarquez Hunter, Auburn
RB – Trevor Etienne, Georgia
WR – Luther Burden III, Missouri
WR – Tre Harris, Ole Miss
TE – Caden Prieskorn, Ole Miss
OL – Will Campbell, LSU
OL – Tyler Booker, Alabama
OL – Tate Ratledge, Georgia
OL – Kelvin Banks Jr., Texas
C – Cooper Mays, Tennessee
AP – Zavion Thomas, LSU

Defense
DL – James Pearce Jr., Tennessee
DL – Deone Walker, Kentucky
DL – Walter Nolen, Ole Miss
DL – Nazir Stackhouse, Georgia*
DL – Landon Jackson, Arkansas*
LB – Harold Perkins, LSU
LB – Danny Stutsman, Oklahoma
LB – Deontae Lawson, Alabama
DB – Malaki Starks, Georgia
DB – Malachi Moore, Alabama
DB – Billy Bowman Jr., Oklahoma
DB – Maxwell Hairston, Kentucky

Special Teams
PK – Bert Auburn, Texas
P – James Burnip, Alabama
RS – Barion Brown, Kentucky
KOS – Alex McPherson, Auburn
LS – Hunter Rogers, South Carolina

SECOND TEAM
Offense
QB – Quinn Ewers, Texas
RB – Raheim Sanders, South Carolina
RB – Montrell Johnson Jr., Florida
WR – Isaiah Bond, Texas
WR – Kyren Lacy, LSU
TE – Oscar Delp, Georgia
OL – Emery Jones, LSU
OL – Kadyn Proctor, Alabama
OL – Xavier Truss, Georgia
OL – Dylan Fairchild, Georgia
C – Parker Brailsford, Alabama
AP – Dillon Bell, Georgia

Defense
DL – Shemar Turner, Texas A&M
DL – Nic Scourton, Texas A&M
DL – Tim Smith, Alabama
DL – Princely Umanmielen, Ole Miss
LB – Debo Williams, South Carolina
LB – Mykel Williams, Georgia
LB – Smael Mondon Jr., Georgia
DB – Andrew Mukuba, Texas
DB – Major Burns, LSU
DB – Jason Marshall Jr., Florida
DB – Jahdae Barron, Texas

Special Teams
PK – Graham Nicholson, Alabama
P – Jeremy Crawshaw, Florida
RS – Keionte Scott, Auburn
KOS – Will Stone, Texas
LS – Kneeland Hibbett, Alabama

THIRD TEAM
Offense
QB – Jalen Milroe, Alabama
RB – Ulysses Bentley IV, Ole Miss
RB – Dylan Sampson, Tennessee*
RB – Justice Haynes, Alabama *
WR – Squirrel White, Tennessee
WR – Dominic Lovett, Georgia
TE – Mason Taylor, LSU
OL – Marques Cox, Kentucky
OL – Earnest Greene III, Georgia
OL – Armand Membou, Missouri
OL – Cam’Ron Johnson, Missouri
C – Eli Cox, Kentucky
AP – Barion Brown, Kentucky

Defense
DL – Tonka Hemingway, South Carolina
DL – Tim Keenan III, Alabama
DL – Trey Moore, Texas
DL – Jared Ivey, Ole Miss
LB – Anthony Hill Jr., Texas
LB – Jihaad Campbell, Alabama
LB – Eugene Asante, Auburn*
LB – Jamon “Pop” Dumas-Johnson, Kentucky*
DB – Malik Muhammad, Texas
DB – Nick Emmanwori, South Carolina
DB – Daylen Everette, Georgia
DB – Domani Jackson, Alabama

Special Teams
PK – Alex McPherson, Auburn
P – Brett Thorson, Georgia
RS – Zavion Thomas, LSU
KOS – Trey Smack, Florida
LS – Slade Roy, LSU

*Ties (ties are not broken)

Evelyn Van Pelt

Evelyn has covered sports for over two decades, beginning her journalism career as a sports writer for a newspaper in Austin, Texas. She attended Texas A&M and majored in English. Evelyn’s love for Ole Miss began when her daughter Katie attended the university on a volleyball scholarship. Evelyn created the Rebel Walk in 2013 and has served as publisher and managing editor since its inception.