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Ole Miss quarterback Jevan Snead (4) gets the pass off as Oklahoma State defensive end Jamie Blatnick (50) comes in for the hit during the first half of the Cotton Bowl NCAA football game at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, Saturday, Jan. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
The embattled quarterback for Ole Miss, once projected to be the first player take in this year's draft, will forego his senior season after a junior campaign that did not match an electrifying performance to close the end of his sophomore season.
Snead, a 6-foot-4 native of Stephenville, Texas, threw 20 touchdown passes but also 20 interceptions, more than all other major college quarterbacks.
“After much prayer and deliberation, I have decided to forego my final year at Ole Miss and enter the NFL draft,” Snead said in a university news release. “In the end, I had to do what is best for me and my family.”
Snead, who has already graduated, called his time at Ole Miss “an incredible experience.”
He leaves with an 18-8 record as the starting quarterback
Snead's decision comes six days after the Rebels' 21-7 Cotton Bowl win over Oklahoma State in which Snead threw three interceptions and was benched for performance for the first time all season.
In the Rebels' six-game win streak to close the 2008 season Snead threw 16 touchdown passes and only three interceptions.
Snead continued to showcase his arm strength in 2009 but his interceptions remained problematic and were the key element in the Rebels' turnover margin, a minus-7 figure that ranked 11th in the SEC and No. 102 in the nation.
Snead was recruited by the highest-profile schools in the country. He gave a verbal commitment to Florida but eventually signed with Texas.
When he was unable to unseat Colt McCoy and win the starting job, he transferred to Ole Miss and sat out the 2007 season, the final one under former coach Ed Orgeron.
Get more Ole Miss football news at Parrish Alford's blog. Read more about this story in Friday's NEMS Daily Journal newspaper.
If he's thinking about that as a reason to leave early, then I can't really say its good decision...but who knows, if the 2010 season is uncapped in the NFL, maybe he's thinking he'll get more money if he goes ahead.
I don't know. I'm not sure, because all of that is based on an NFL team wanting him. And I don't think any will.
But, then, maybe he knows he's not good enough and will probably not be good enough after playing college ball for another year and he's hoping to capitalize on the Cotton Bowl win thinking maybe some NFL team will be stupid enough to take him.
In my opinion he's not even a very good college quarterback and all of the early season talk about him and the Heisman was ridiculous.
If some NFL team is stupid enough to sign him, I don't think that he'll ever start an NFL game.
But, I can't blame him for trying to "git dat money"!!
If I were an Ole Miss fan, I'd be cheering the decision as it clears the way for someone much better to step up.