Bassfield’s Jamal Peters (2) leads the class of football recruits to sign with Mississippi State. (Photo by Mary Liz Herrington)
Mississippi State signed 21 football players in February and 18 of those players are enrolled for the June term on campus.
Workouts for the team began Monday.
The only three signees not on campus are Farrod Green, Dontea Jones and T.D. Morton.
A full roster was released and it showed three veterans had changed their numbers. Redshirt freshmen quarterbacks Elijah Staley and Nick Fitzgerald will now wear No. 2 and No. 7 respectively. Junior defensive back Tolando Cleveland will also wear No. 7 on the defensive side of the ball.
ENROLLED NEWCOMERS:
No. 3 Traver Jung (Holmes CC) – LB, 6-4, 215 pounds
No. 12 Jamal Peters (Bassfield, MS) – DB, 6-2, 216 pounds
No. 14 Nick Tiano (Chattanooga, TN) – QB, 6-5, 230 pounds
No. 21 Nick Gibson (Birmingham, AL) – RB, 5-11, 197 pounds
No. 23 Keith Mixon (Birmingham, AL) – WR, 5-8, 175 pounds
No. 26 Alec Murphy (Nixa, MO) – RB, 6-1, 225 pounds
No. 30 Chris Stamps (Vicksburg, MS) – DB, 6-1, 170 pounds
No. 31 Maurice Smitherman (Adamsville, AL) – DB, 5-9, 178 pounds
No. 41 Mark McLaurin (Collins, MS) – DB, 6-2, 210 pounds
No. 43 Fletcher Adams (Brandon, MS) – DL, 6-2, 260 pounds
No. 44 Leo Lewis (Brookhaven, MS) – LB, 6-2, 231 pounds
No. 69 Darryl Williams (Bessemer, AL) – OL, 6-3, 304 pounds
No. 75 Harrison Moon (Chattanooga, TN) – OL, 6-4, 276 pounds
No. 81 Justin Johnson (Birmingham, AL) – WR, 6-4, 224 pounds
No. 85 Jonnas Spivey (Bay Springs, MS) – WR, 6-1, 181 pounds
No. 91 Anfernee Mullins (Aliceville, AL) – DL, 6-4, 245 pounds
No. 92 Kendell Jones (Pinson, AL) – DL, 6-4, 255 pounds
No. 99 Keith Joseph, Jr. (Pascagoula, MS) – LB, 6-4, 226 pounds
Note, these heights and weights are not updated and may change when coaches evaluate players
