#11

Dontario Drummond

Senior wide receiver for Ole Miss. 2021: 76 catches, 1,028 receiving yards, 8 TD.

WR · Ole Miss · Sr. · #11

6′0″ · 215 lb · Laurel, MS

CFB Index 83 · #27 of 468 WRsHigh confidenceOle Miss 2021 alumnus

The story

4 wide receiver for Ole Miss. 2021: 76 catches, 1,028 receiving yards, 8 TD.

The record fills in as he plays.

His career, year by year

How it ended

Three seasons at Ole Miss, 1,633 receiving yards — his college career is complete.

Career arc

Recruit

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No recruit profile

CFB

College

Ole Miss

2019–2021

NFL

NFL Draft

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Not drafted

Coaching lineage · 2019–2021

2 coaches

2019

Matt Luke

Ole Miss

2020–2021

Lane Kiffin

Ole Miss

era →

Coaching transition mid-career: Matt Luke → Lane Kiffin. Worth noting in scheme + development context.

2021 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2019Ole Miss4-8HC: Matt Luke · Run-heavy

2020Ole Miss5-5HC: Lane Kiffin · Run-leaning, fast tempo

2021Ole Miss10-3HC: Lane Kiffin · Run-leaning, fast tempo

Where this profile ranks vs the WR cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles

83All-Conference level #27 of 468?

High confidence13 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: epa / target (86th percentile). Strength: receptions (94th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

EPA / target#94 / 655 · 86th pct

0.98

TD rate#187 / 655 · 71st pct

8.8%

Catch rate#192 / 655 · 71st pct

81.3%

Explosive rate#202 / 655 · 69th pct

16.5%

Yards / catch#236 / 655 · 64th pct

13.6

Box-score rates (8)

Receptions#31 / 557 · 94th pct

Rec yards#35 / 557 · 94th pct

1028

Rec TDs#39 / 557 · 92nd pct

Rush TDs#10 / 273 · 88th pct

Fumbles lost#1 / 223 · 80th pct

Long catch#107 / 557 · 80th pct

Rush yards#60 / 273 · 77th pct

Yards / catch#254 / 557 · 54th pct

13.5

Season trend

EPA / target— 2020 cohort too thin to compare (n=17)

Explosive rate— 2020 cohort too thin to compare (n=17)

Catch rate— 2020 cohort too thin to compare (n=17)

TD rate— 2020 cohort too thin to compare (n=17)

Yards / catch— 2020 cohort too thin to compare (n=17)

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season. Most bars are box-score rates; EPA / success-rate bars are computed from real play-by-play (offense only — no defensive EPA model exists yet).

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2021 season · 11 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	REC/g	YDS/g	YPR	TD/g
Home7g	6.1	91.1	16.9	1.0
Road4g	6.0	71.5	15.9	0.2

First half vs Second half

	REC/g	YDS/g	YPR	TD/g
Weeks 1-76g	4.7	87.7	21.9	1.0
Weeks 8+5g	7.8	79.6	10.2	0.4

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Pete Golding

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2021

Part-time starter

Splitting first-team reps — starts some weeks, rotates others.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

83 · #27 of 468 WRs

Career stats

Season	Team
2021	Ole Miss	76	1,028	13.5	8	--
2020	Ole Miss	25	417	16.7	7	--
2019	Ole Miss	13	188	14.5	0	--
Career		114	1,633	14.3	15	--

Season	Team
2021	Ole Miss	6	40	--	56	--
2020	Ole Miss	--	--	--	27	--
2019	Ole Miss	--	--	--	1	--
Career		6	40	--	84	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 11 · 2021

W 29–19

vs Texas A&M

6 rec · 49 yds · 1 TD

With J. Ealy — 152 rush yds (24 car) · M. Brown — 2 rush yds (1 car)

Signature plays

Signature plays · top plays by |EPA|

The plays that mattered most

fact

Week 1 · Louisville · 1&6 · Q4 · EPA +6.46Matt Corral pass complete to Dontario Drummond for 6 yds for a TD (Caden Costa KICK)
Week 6 · Arkansas · 1&10 · Q2 · EPA +5.43Dontario Drummond 67 Yd pass from Matt Corral (Matt Corral Run for Two-Point Conversion)
Week 1 · Louisville · 4&6 · Q3 · EPA +3.57Matt Corral pass complete to Dontario Drummond for 17 yds to the Lvile 29 for a 1ST down
Week 1 · Louisville · 1&20 · Q4 · EPA +3.28Matt Corral pass complete to Dontario Drummond for 19 yds to the Lvile 11
Week 1 · Baylor · 4&7 · Q3 · EPA +3.15Luke Altmyer pass complete to Dontario Drummond for 18 yds to the Bayl 23 for a 1ST down
Week 8 · LSU · 2&9 · Q2 · EPA +2.95Matt Corral pass complete to Dontario Drummond for 27 yds to the LSU 35 for a 1ST down
Week 1 · Louisville · 4&5 · Q4 · EPA +2.95Matt Corral pass complete to Dontario Drummond for 9 yds to the Lvile 32 for a 1ST down
Week 3 · Tulane · 3&6 · Q2 · EPA +2.91Dontario Drummond run for 11 yds for a TD, (Caden Costa KICK)
Week 6 · Arkansas · 4&4 · Q4 · EPA +2.88Matt Corral pass complete to Dontario Drummond for 11 yds to the Ark 34 for a 1ST down
Week 3 · Tulane · 3&5 · Q2 · EPA +2.88Matt Corral pass complete to Dontario Drummond for 12 yds for a TD, (Caden Costa KICK)

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2021 season · 11 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	REC	YDS	AVG	TD	LONG	Note
Wk 1	W 43-24vs Louisville	9	177	19.7	1	34	Season-high 177 yds
Wk 2	W 54-17vs Austin Peay	6	107	17.8	2	49	2 TD catches
Wk 3	W 61-21vs Tulane	5	55	11.0	1	18
Wk 5	L 21-42@ Alabama	4	43	10.8	0	13
Wk 6	W 52-51vs Arkansas	2	78	39.0	1	67
Wk 7	W 31-26@ Tennessee	2	66	33.0	1	50
Wk 8	W 31-17vs LSU	8	93	11.6	0	27
Wk 9	L 20-31@ Auburn	4	39	9.8	0	13
Wk 11	W 29-19vs Texas A&M	6	49	8.2	1	17
Wk 12	W 31-17vs Vanderbilt	7	79	11.3	1	26
Wk 13	W 31-21@ Mississippi State	14	138	9.9	0	34	138-yard receiving day
Total		67	924	16.6	8	67

Stats from CFBD · ESPN · fan discourse. Every figure computed from source tables — not invented. Methodology

Dontario Drummond

2021 snapshot

Splits & context

Awards

Part-time starter

Career stats

Signature game

Signature plays

Game log

How he plays

DNA match

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