Ole Miss suspends a pair of players

Ole Miss football players Clarence Jackson and Delvin Jones were suspended indefinitely from the program today by coach Houston Nutt for an unspecified violation of team rules. Lafayette County jail records list Jackson and Jones as being arrested by campus police this morning and charged with public drunkenness. They were listed as being booked into the jail at 3:50 a.m. As of around 2:30 p.m., there was no record of either player being released. Jackson had ascended to the top spot on UM’s depth chart at weakside linebacker in a depth chart the school released earlier this week. That was the spot previously occupied by D.T. Shackelford, who suffered a knee injury in the final week of spring practice and is expected to miss the 2011 season. The sophomore linebacker from Atlanta was arrested in September after he was alleged to have been in possession of a 46-inch flat-screen television, a TV stand and a DVD/CD player with a total value of close to $2,000 that belonged at Hume Hall, a building that houses the university’s mathematics department. The status of that case was listed as “open” in Lafayette County Justice Court this afternoon. Jones, a sophomore, played in just two games in 2010 before being one of two players suspended for the final two games of the year due to “bad freshman mistakes”.