Auburn added 10 new offensive linemen during the offseason, including five out of the transfer portal.
Preceding Senda from the portal was Western Kentucky transfer Gunner Britton, East Carolina transfer Avery Jones and Tulsa transfers Dillon Wade and Jaden Muskrat.was graded the third-best offensive lineman in the transfer portal by Pro Football Focus this offseason. As a junior last season, Britton allowed pressure in only 1.7% of his pass blocking snaps.
allowed him to reunite with Philip Montgomery, who was Tulsa’s head coach before coming to The Plains to be Freeze’s offensive coordinator. “In today’s world where it’s so easy to leave and go other places, he stuck it out,” Thornton said. “He’s been through good and bad here. And in our room, man, there’s not a bigger presence for what it means to be an Auburn offensive lineman.”At left guard, however, there seems to be an ongoing battle between juniors Tate Johnson and Jeremiah Wright — two guys who suffered recent injuries that hindered their preseason development.
“He’s done a really good job this camp of being vocal,” Thornton said. “In the spring, he was trying to get comfortable, trying to find his place... I feel like he’s now trying to be more vocal and more in-tune with being that vocal leader in the middle because we’re putting so much on his plate at center.”
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