Knox Kiffin’s football journey is still relatively young. Lane Kiffin’s son followed his dad to Oxford to start his high school career, but despite being the son of Ole Miss’ head coach, it didn’t guarantee him the starting job. Instead, at Oxford High School, he had to wait out his turn. All that is set to change.

Knox, who recently moved to OHS, was the backup behind the starting QB Drew Dean. However, in OHS’s game against Germantown, Dean went down with an injury midway through the third quarter, and Knox was called into action. When you have QB genes, no moment is big enough. Knox led a clutch drive in overtime and sealed his high school’s 43-42 win with a two-point conversion.

ON3’s Ben Garrett asked Knox whether he’s starting this week against Clinton when the QB appeared on the

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