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AUBURN — Could Auburn football have drawn up a better Big Cat Weekend?
That’s a rhetorical question, of course. Things could always be better. Would coach Hugh Freeze like to have a quarterback committed in the Class of 2025 by this point? Of course. Would the Tigers have loved to add a pledge from a five-star recruit Saturday? Certainly, especially given the fact that someone such as Ohio State commit Na’eem Offord, rated by the 247Sports Composite as the No. 7 player in the country, was on campus.
But by all reasonable metrics, Auburn had a stellar Big Cat.
The Tigers left with five new commitments — two in 2025 and three in 2026 — including a former Alabama pledge in four-star defensive lineman Antonio Coleman, who flipped back to Auburn to put an exclamation point on the day’s events.
Nabbing a prospect from Alabama will always be good news for Tigers fans, but when looking at the 247Sports Composite rankings, Coleman shouldn’t be the recruit drawing the most attention. The former Alabama pledge has a composite rating of .9380, which puts him near elite territory, no doubt. But all four of the other new commits are rated higher.
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The highest rated of the bunch is 2026 edge defender Hezekiah Harris, who got the commitment party started in the morning before Big Cat even officially began. Harris is a four-star prospect, and his composite score of .9824 makes him the No. 30 player in 2026 and the second highest-rated recruit the Tigers have landed during the Freeze Era.
Four-star linebackers Shadarius Toodle and JaMichael Garrett followed Harris as commitments, bringing Auburn’s total numbers of pledges in 2026 to five….
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Author : The Montgomery Advertiser
Publish date : 2024-07-28 09:10:41
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