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Ole Miss Rebels' QB Austin Simmons used SEC baseball to bring 'the Tua thing' to football

It all adds up for Austin Simmons.

Every opportunity, on the mound for Ole Miss or on the gridiron for the Rebels, has led to this season.

Now, for the first time, the left-handed Simmons is a starting quarterback at Mississippi. He's promising enough that Lane Kiffin didn't go after a starting QB in the transfer portal, either.

"He just has the Tua thing," Kiffin told ESPN's Pete Thamel . "... There's no way you teach any of that. They just have that."

Simmons' most prominent SEC action, for the most part, has so far come in baseball. He's a left-handed reliever.

Thamel relayed this story in a new feature on Simmons :

The case for Ole Miss football optimism this yea

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