NFF National Scholar-Athletes
A co-captain of the 1986 Ole Miss football team, Jeff Noblin received the Independence Bowl Scholar-Athlete Award after the Rebels’ 20-17 victory over Texas Tech to cap off an 8-3-1 season, their winningest season in 15 years. An All-SEC selection, he recorded five interceptions and received the Jeff Hamm Memorial Award as the most improved defensive football player. A two-time Second Team Academic All-American and three-time Academic All-SEC selection, Noblin compiled a 3.65 GPA and received the SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year award and the John Howard Vaught Award of Excellence as the team’s most outstanding senior scholar-athlete. He made the Chancellor’s Honor Roll three times and the Dean’s Honor Roll twice.
Noblin earned his M.D. from Ole Miss in 1991 and completed his internship and residency at the Ole Miss Medical Center in 1996. After completing a sports medicine fellowship at the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1997, where he served as a team physician for the Kansas City Chiefs, he joined Bienville Orthopedic Specialists in Ocean Springs, Miss. Noblin is a co-founder and co-medical director of the Sports Medicine Center of Bienville Orthopedic Specialists.
