BREAKING: Kamario Taylor Is Finalizing A Deal To Return To Mississippi State In 2027
Justin Ford. Getty Images.I'm happy for Brandon Walker today, man.
It was just announced that Mississippi State is finalizing a deal to retain Kamario Taylor for next season. If you watched Wake Up Barstool this morning, you'd know that Brandon was hinting at this deal already being in the works, and it looks like it's pretty much signed, sealed, delivered at this point.
It also seems like Kamario will receive a SIGNIFICANTLY bigger NIL paycheck. He was gonna be one of the most sought-after players in the sport if he were to hit the transfer portal, but Jeff Lebby and the Bulldogs were able to keep him home, and now Mississippi State can focus on building around him heading into next season.
This is quite the feel-good story in my eyes. For months, we've had to listen to speculation about where this guy was gonna wind up next year. Surely, a bigger program with deeper pockets was gonna steal him away from lowly Mississippi State and blah blah blah blah blah…
It was all so representative of how college football has taken a turn for the worse. The second a kid at a smaller program starts to ball out, the only question that people wanna ask is when will he leave for a better opportunity elsewhere. It must be extremely irritating for these players to go through an entire season of people saying that they should ditch their current programs, and I imagine it's irritating for fans of those programs to hear that chatter, as well.
But at least in this case, we have a hometown kid staying at the school he loves, and he seems to be spending his entire college career there. It's great to see. And Mississippi State should be a force to be reckoned with next season as long as Kamario stays healthy.
And if Kamario stays healthy, then he will absolutely be in the running for the #1 pick in the 2028 NFL Draft. This dude's got it.
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I've written long enough, so to close us out, here's Brandon Walker's reaction to the big time news. Enjoy.