Ole Miss added another big piece to its 2027 class on the heels of a ranked win, landing a commitment from four-star tight end Rahzario Edwards a day after the Rebels knocked off No. 22 Missouri, 31-3.
Edwards gives Ole Miss its 23rd commitment in the class and its second tight end pledge. The Rebels’ 2027 group had been ranked No. 14 by 247Sports before the addition.
A 6-foot-6, 210-pound prospect out of Grant Union High School in Sacramento, California, Edwards comes in with serious national buzz. The 247Sports composite rankings list him as the No. 153 player in the country, the seventh-ranked tight end in the class and the 14th-ranked player in California. At one point, he was ranked as a top-40 prospect.
He arrives with 20 Power Four offers, and his path to Oxford included a flip from California. The Golden Bears offered Edwards on Jan. 17, 2025, and he committed to Cal on May 30, 2026, only two days after visiting the school.
Ole Miss offered on Jan. 28, 2025, and was able to turn him after the win over Missouri. Later that night, Cal fell 41-7 to No.
17 Wake Forest.
Edwards joins Colton Johnson, a three-star tight end from Upperman High School in Baxter, Tennessee, as the Rebels’ other 2027 tight end commitment. Together, they’ll enter a room that already has seven tight ends on the roster, although Hayden Bradley is the only underclassman among them. That could leave a path for both newcomers to get involved early.
For Ole Miss, Edwards looks like a potential fit in the same mold as Caleb Odom, who has become a major receiving threat for the Rebels this season at tight end. Edwards’ size is close to Odom’s high school profile, too: when Odom signed with Alabama in the 2024 class, he was listed at 6-foot-5, 215 pounds.
Odom’s production did not come immediately. He spent time at wide receiver at Alabama before moving back to tight end after transferring to Ole Miss, and it took until this season for him to become a real factor.
The Rebels appear to be chasing that same kind of weapon with Edwards, and now they’ll try to develop him with Odom’s path already serving as the blueprint.
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