Ole Miss is bringing two old Rebels back into the building as Pete Golding puts together his first coaching staff.
Reece McIntyre and Tyler Banks, both former players at Ole Miss, have been working around the program for the past month in new staff roles, according to Ole Miss On SI. McIntyre is serving as an assistant offensive line coach, while Banks has taken on assistant strength and conditioning duties. Neither name has been added to the staff directory yet.
McIntyre’s path back to Oxford makes a clean bit of sense. A member of the Rebels’ 2019 signing class, the Buford, Georgia native spent six seasons on the offensive line and finished his college career by starting all 13 games at center in 2024. He played in 60 games overall for Ole Miss and logged 17 starts along the line.
After that season, McIntyre signed with the New York Giants as an undrafted free agent and later gave Jaxson Dart some familiarity during offseason work as a rookie in the organization. He was cut before the 2025 season when the final 53-man roster was set.
Banks brings a different kind of background to the staff. The 6-foot-2, 245-pound linebacker arrived in Oxford as part of Ole Miss’ 2022 signing class and came in as a three-star recruit from Blackstone, Virginia.
Over four seasons, he played in 54 games, mainly on special teams, while also picking up snaps as a rotating linebacker. He finished with 41 tackles and a forced fumble.
His final year in 2025 came during a special run for the Rebels, who posted a program-best 13 wins.
Golding’s recent remarks about the 2022 recruiting class also fit into the picture with Banks, who never signed a professional contract this offseason. Golding said this month, “I think the timing of this isn’t perfect to create a lot of opportunities for certain people when you already have a roster limit.
There’s no new additions and umbrellas like they did with COVID or anything like that. Yes, obviously there was conversations with a couple of those guys from ‘22 that are in other camps.
But more from a standpoint of if somebody was to get injured during camp and something became available, then you’d have a body to go to that’s actually been in this system and all those type of things,” Golding said this month. “Our numbers are what they are right now and we’re where we need to be, but definitely there’s been conversations in case something was to occur that we would need to go that direction.”
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