JJ Pegues, Mississippi Football News: Draft Scout Player News

07/24/22 - DT JJ Pegues, rSr/2025, Mississippi

JJ Pegues and safety Ladarius Tennison are two former Auburn players who transferred to Ole Miss this offseason. Pegues is an Oxford native getting to come home for his junior season and Tennison is coming to Mississippi after logging 43 tackles and 4.5 tackles for loss in the last two seasons. Auburn defensive end Derick Hall, a Gulfport native, raved about his former teammates. "Ten is really good," Hall said. "He's smaller, he's shorter. But just the physique he plays with, his technique, the way he plays he's a weights player. Ten will light you up in a heartbeat and don't care nothing about it. And JJ, y'all saw the video of what he did to the guy freshman year at Ole Miss. It speaks for itself." Shenker said he stays in touch with Pegues. He said he and his teammates understand why players make decisions that are best for them but added Pegues and Tennison will be missed.

Hall says he "hates" that Pegues and Tennison left because of the unique aspect they added to the defense and the ways they helped Auburn grow. But as a Mississippi native, Hall gets to add Pegues and Tennison to the list of players he hears from after battling a home-state rival. "Those games do mean a lot to me just because of bragging rights," Hall said. "As soon as the game is over, you can call them and say 'I'm in the locker room and we just beat y'all.' And then it's the other way around. They'll call me and say 'Ah, you just lost.' So I'm mad at them and I'm blocking them for two or three weeks instead of them blocking me for two or three weeks. It's all fun and games, but obviously it comes down to winning a championship so we all love each other but at that time we're on the field, it's not the same." - The Clarion Ledger

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