4-Star QB Austin Simmons Is Skipping His Junior AND Senior Years Of High School Thanks To His 5.34 GPA And Joining The Ole Miss Football Team At 17 Years Old

I don't remember ever seeing this before. Austin Simmons, a four-star quarterback in the class of 2025, is reclassifying to the 2023 class and joining the Ole Miss football program this summer at 17 years old. In football, guys enroll a semester early all the time and basketball guys reclassify a year earlier fairly often, but I've never seen a kid skip his last two years of high school.

Simmons completed all his high school credits early with a 5.3 GPA and already has college credits, as well.

Palm Beach Post — The 6-foot-3, 200-pound Simmons is home schooled and taking online courses. He is a sophomore athletically but has completed his high school core classes and finished 15 college credits.

This allows him to play football at Pahokee while living with his dad in Canal Point, and play baseball in Dade County while living with his mom in Miami. Last season, he pitched for the Doctors Charter School of Miami Shores varsity, and tossed two no-hitters. This year he may return to Miami Christian where he was on the varsity as a 6th and 7th grader.

"Austin is kind of in a category by himself because of the amount of work he puts in," said Oliver Bozeman, who has coached Simmons for the last five years.

"Most kids are in school all day. Austin has already completed his school work and he's in the weight room or he's in film study or he's doing quarterback sessions when most kids are doing school work."

This kid cracked the code. He got homeschooled so he could just speed through all the schoolwork and bullshit nobody wants to do so he could spend more time training and studying football. I can't believe Nick Saban didn't do whatever it took to get this cyborg on campus.

If his high school preparation is any indicator, Simmons is going to be a monster in Oxford shortly enough.