Ole Miss transfer receiver Cayden Lee commits to Mizzou
Mizzou got the room-topping receiver its been hunting for with Ole Miss transfer Cayden Lee.
Lee is a four-star transfer ranked No. 21 among all receivers and No. 102 among all players available in the portal.
The 5-foot-11, 180-pound rising senior follows Ole Miss transfer quarterback Austin Simmons to Columbia.
Lee has been a part of the Rebel offense since his true freshman season in 2023. He played in 10 games that year with five catches for 114 yards and two touchdowns. That included a 51-yard reception.
Then his sophomore season he became a primary option. He amassed 57 catches for 874 yards and two touchdowns on the way to making the All-SEC Third Team. He had a 58-yard catch for his longest of the year.
His numbers took a slight step back in 2025, catching 44 passes for 635 yards, though with a career-high three touchdowns. He had a 62-yard catch for his longest of the season.
Lee is the Tigers’ fifth addition to the receiver room. Mizzou added Caleb Goodie from Cincinnati, Horatio Fields from Auburn, Naeshaun Montgomery from Florida and Kenric Lanier from Minnesota.
Lee holds the highest rating among all the incoming Mizzou transfers, surpassing Auburn transfer linebacker Robert Woodyard.
Mizzou returns just three players who were true freshmen in the room last season. Donovan Olugbode and DaMarion Fowlkes will be sophomores, while Shaun Terry will be a redshirt freshman.
The Tigers also have two incoming three-stars in the Class of 2026 in Jabari Brady and Devyon Hill-Lomax.
After the Tigers lost Kevin Coleman, Xavier Loyd and Logan Muckey to exhausted eligibility and Marquis Johnson, Joshua Manning, James Madison and Daniel Blood to the portal, Mizzou had a lot of work to rebuild the room. The Tigers now have 10 scholarship receivers, which is more than the nine they carried last season. Though it matches the group if you include Muckey, who played a larger role than most walk-ons.