Wide Receiver Samari Reed Commits to Ole Miss

Samari Reed made an atypical announcement during an eventful day for college football recruiting. It did not end up going the Wildcats’ way.

In most modern recruitments, we have a good idea if a player is leaning one way or another. There are times when that doesn’t matter, like when Tavion Wallace shocked Florida State and picked Arkansas, but for the most part, folks aren’t fooled by decision time.

This Fourth of July was not one of those days.

His five finalists were Clemson, Penn State, Kentucky, Ole Miss, and West Virginia. Over the last 24 hours, there was buzz for each one of those schools to secure Reed’s services. It flip-flopped back and forth. Clemson was supposedly the only school that was certainly eliminated, then they became the team to beat in the final minutes before his announcement. It was madness.

Props to Reed for keeping it quiet and close to the vest. We stayed on our toes when he went live on Instagram. Even the hats were all of identical style. He slowly eliminated them one by one, then cut the live stream off with only Ole Miss and West Virginia remaining.

If you love drama, you got that and then some on the Fourth of July from Samari Reed.

The future Ole Miss wide receiver is a 6-foot-2 pass-catcher from Coconut Creek, FL, who’s teammates with UK commit Bryan Augste at Monarch High School. Reed is a three-star talent and the No. 63 wide receiver in the 2025 class, according to the On3 Industry Ranking, a proprietary algorithm that compiles ratings and rankings from all four primary recruiting media services. 

The miss should not greatly impact Kentucky’s bottom line at wide receiver. The Wildcats already have three wide receiver commits in the 2025 class, including a pair of top 500 pass-catchers, Quintin Simmons and Ja’Kayden Ferguson.

Daikiel Shorts’ will likely add at least one more to the fold, maybe even two, before signing day. The Wildcats hosted East St. Louis WR Dejerrian Miller and Top 100 Texas WR Andrew Marsh for official visits last month.

Kentucky’s 2025 recruiting is now ranked No. 19 overall following this afternoon’s addition of three-star OT Jermiel Atkins.

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