A pair of Ole Miss football players have been recognized by the SEC following a big weekend for the Rebels. Senior left tackle Diego Pounds and freshman wide receiver Winston Watkins Jr. were honored for their performances during the team’s 34-26 win at Oklahoma on Saturday.

Pounds, who transferred to Ole Miss from North Carolina two seasons ago, was the SEC’s offensive lineman of the week after anchoring a Rebel front that tallied 431 total yards against one of the nation’s toughest defenses. The Ole Miss offensive line unit yielded just one sack – only the eighth allowed by Lane Kiffin’s team this season – against an Oklahoma bunch that led the conference in getting to opposing quarterbacks.

As for Watkins, the promising young wideout from Florida was the conference’s freshman of the w

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