{"id":2307,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/2307","headline":"Kamario Taylor set to stay at Mississippi State through 2027","dek":"The Bulldogs quarterback turned down a reported seven figure offer to transfer and is finalizing a deal to return to Starkville, about 30 minutes from his hometown.","body":"Kamario Taylor is staying put. The Mississippi State quarterback is finalizing a deal to return to Starkville for the 2027 season, closing the door on what looked like an inevitable trip through the transfer portal.\n\nTaylor's sophomore season was cut short by turf toe surgery, but not before he established himself as one of the most electric quarterbacks in the country and a Heisman contender. That kind of production tends to attract attention, and portal-aggressive programs like Miami and Oregon were reportedly eyeing him as an instant upgrade under center.\n\nInstead, Taylor chose to stay close to home, in a town about 30 minutes from where he grew up. Pat McAfee called the decision a huge move for college football, noting Taylor turned down millions of dollars to go elsewhere. \"He was offered millions, and millions, to go somewhere else. He could've easily hopped in the transfer portal. But basically said I'm staying here,\" McAfee said.\n\nFor Mississippi State, the commitment removes the biggest offseason question mark hanging over the program. For a sport where star quarterbacks routinely bolt for bigger paydays and bigger programs, Taylor betting on Starkville is the kind of story that stands out.","published_at":"2026-11-11T23:33:22.872608+00:00","source_count":3,"written_from":[{"outlet":"Fox Sports","publisher":"Fox Sports","title":"QB Kamario Taylor Reportedly Set To Return To Mississippi State For 2027 Season","url":"https://www.foxsports.com/stories/college-football/mississippi-state-qb-kamario-taylor-reportedly-set-return-2027-season"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Pat McAfee reveals why Kamario Taylor staying is a ‘huge move’ for college football","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/pat-mcafee-reveals-why-kamario-230754972.html"},{"outlet":"The Athletic","publisher":"The Athletic","title":"Mississippi State, Kamario Taylor close to agreeing on lucrative deal to return for 2027","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7774442/2026/11/11/kamario-taylor-mississippi-state-2027-season/"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Star QB Kamario Taylor finalizing deal to return to Mississippi State football, per reports","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/star-qb-kamario-taylor-finalizing-211613513.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"QB Kamario Taylor reportedly returning to Mississippi State next year on $7.5 million deal","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football/breaking-news/article/qb-kamario-taylor-reportedly-returning-to-mississippi-state-next-year-on-75-million-deal-211456535.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Kamario Taylor is heading back to Mississippi State football. How much will he be earning?","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/kamario-taylor-heading-back-mississippi-214232761.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Kamario Taylor’s eye-popping payday to return to Mississippi State makes him college football's highest paid QB","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/kamario-taylor-eye-popping-payday-220730072.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Mississippi State QB Kamario Taylor finalizing deal to return for 2027 season","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/mississippi-state-qb-kamario-taylor-222438167.html"}],"image":{"url":"https://statics.foxsports.com/www.foxsports.com/content/uploads/2026/11/gettyimages-2301297300.jpg","credit":"Fox Sports","width":1024},"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}