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2022 PRESEASON JOHN MACKEY AWARD WATCH LIST: JOHN SAMUEL SHENKER, AUBURN,...A sixth-year senior, Shenker set program season records for tight ends with 33 receptions for 413 yards in 2021. He was the John Mackey Award player of the week vs. LSU after making five catches for 102 yards, the first 100-yard game by an Auburn tight end since 1994. In his career, Shenker has totaled 45 receptions for 540 yards and two touchdowns. - Auburn Football

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TE John Samuel Shenker, Auburn
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07/25/22 - Nick Brahms, rSr/2023, Auburn, 6-3, 300 (DS#999 C) + More +

2022 PRESEASON RIMINGTON TROPHY WATCHLIST: Nick Brahms, Auburn,...For Brahms, it's the third straight year on the Rimington Trophy Watch List. The senior, who is one of only two centers in the SEC to make the watch list the last three years, has played in 40 career games at Auburn and has started every game at center each of the last two seasons. He was granted an extra year of eligibility this year because of COVID-19. Between Brahms and Kaleb Kim (2019), Auburn has now had a center make the Rimington Trophy Watch List in each of the last four years. In 2014, former All-SEC offensive lineman Reese Dismukes became the first Auburn player to win the Rimington Trophy. - Auburn Football

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C Nick Brahms, Auburn
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07/22/22 - *Tank Bigsby, Jr/2023, Auburn, 6-0, 215 (DS#8 RB) + More +

2022 PRESEASON DOAK WALKER AWARD CANDIDATE: Tank Bigsby (Jr.), Auburn,...First name is really Cartavious, the son of Shaquanna, but two siblings have easy names - Ced and A. J. So Cartavious, aka Tank, returned to Auburn last season after being SEC Freshman of the Year IN 2020 and chalked up 1,099 yards with 10 touchdowns. That pushed his career totals to 1,933 yards and 15 touchdowns rushing heading into this, his junior year. Last year was on SEC academic honor roll and received Pat Sullivan Award as the team's offensive player of the year. - Auburn Football

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RB *Tank Bigsby, Auburn
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07/22/22 - Nick Mardner, rSr/2024, Auburn, 6-6, 208 (DS#69 WR) + More +

2022 PRESEASON BILETNIKOFF AWARD WATCH LIST: Nick Mardner, Cincinnati,...Mardner spent his previous four years at Hawai'i, where he broke out for 46 receptions and team-highs of 913 yards and five touchdowns at Hawaii in 2021. The Mississauga, Ontario, native started the season with a four-week stretch from Sept. 4 to Sept. 25 where he had 97 receiving yards in every game, including a six-catch, 110-yard performance against Oregon State and a four-catch, 120-yard game against New Mexico State. He also had four catches for a season-high 139 yards and a touchdown at UNLV on Nov. 13. Mardner, who at 6-foot-6 is the team's tallest receiver or tight end, arrived to Clifton in time for spring practice. He has averaged 20.7 yards per catch over his career and was a midseason addition to the Biletnikoff Watch List in 2021. - Cincinnati Football

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WR Nick Mardner, Auburn
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07/21/22 - Payton Thorne, rSr/2025, Auburn, 6-2, 207 (DS#27 QB) + More +

2022 PRESEASON MAXWELL AWARD WATCH LIST: Payton Thorne, Michigan State,... Quarterback Payton Thorne (now 6-2, 210) was redshirted his first year at Michigan State in 2019. Then, in 2020, he played in four games as a backup to Rocky Lombardi and made one start. In his first career start against Penn State he passed for 325 yards and three touchdowns. For the season, he completed 48 of 85 passes for 582 yards with three touchdowns and three interceptions. Thorne was named the Spartans starter to open 2021 and came up big with record-setting season in his first year as the starting quarterback, collecting an 11-2 record and leading Michigan State to a No. 8/9 national ranking and a win in the New Year's Six with a 31-21 victory over No. 12 Pitt in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl.

Set the MSU single-season record for most TD passes with 27, surpassing Kirk Cousins, who had 25 in 2011...also ranked among MSU's single-season leaders in total offense (third with 3,414 yards), passing yards (third with 3,233), passing yards per game (third with 248.7), passing efficiency (sixth with 148.1 rating), pass completions (tied for sixth with 234) and pass attempts (seventh with 388)...was 234-of-388 passing (.603) for 3,233 yards, 27 TDs and 10 interceptions...also ran for four touchdowns and had 181 net yards rushing on 82 attempts. - Michigan State Football

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QB Payton Thorne, Auburn
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07/20/22 - Payton Thorne, rSr/2025, Auburn, 6-2, 207 (DS#27 QB) + More +

2022 PRESEASON DAVEY O'BRIEN NATIONAL QUARTERBACK AWARD WATCH LIST: Payton Thorne, Michigan State, Jr., 6-2, 210, Naperville, Ill.,...After a record-setting season in his first year as the starting quarterback, Thorne is back for the Spartans in 2022. Thorne set a school single-season record with 27 touchdown passes in 2021, surpassing Kirk Cousins, who previously held the record with 25 TDs in 2011. Thorne also ranked among MSU's single-season leaders in total offense (third with 3,414 yards), passing yards (third with 3,233), passing yards per game (third with 248.7), passing efficiency (sixth with 148.1 rating), pass completions (tied for sixth with 234) and pass attempts (seventh with 388). Overall in his first year as the starting quarterback, Thorne was 234-of-388 passing (.603) for 3,233 yards, 27 TDs and 10 interceptions. - Michigan State Football

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QB Payton Thorne, Auburn
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07/18/22 - *Tank Bigsby, Jr/2023, Auburn, 6-0, 215 (DS#8 RB) + More +

2022 PRESEASON MAXWELL AWARD WATCH LIST: Tank Bigsby, Auburn,...The SEC freshman of the year in 2020, Bigsby rushed for 1,099 yards and 10 touchdowns as a sophomore in 2021. Bigsby began the 2021 season with three consecutive 100-yard games, adding two more with 140 rushing yards vs. Ole Miss and 164 vs. South Carolina. In two seasons on the Plains, the 6-0, 213-pounder has rushed for 1,933 yards and 15 touchdowns to rank No. 20 in Auburn career rushing. - Auburn Football

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RB *Tank Bigsby, Auburn
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07/17/22 - Brian Battie, rSr/2025, Auburn, 5-06, 168 (DS#999 RB) + More +

2022 WALTER CAMP PRESEASON FIRST TEAM ALL-AMERICAN: KR Brian Battie (South Florida),..In 2021, named a 2021 NCAA Consensus All-American, becoming just the second in program history and first since defensive end George Selvie earned the elite recognition in 2007... first team All-America selection from Walter Camp and FWAA, two of the five major selectors... six first team All-America selections (Walter Camp, FWAA, Phil Steele, Action Network, Bleacher Report, Pro Football Network) and three second team (Sporting News, Pro Football Focus, CBS/247 Sports) as a standout kick returner...nine total All-America selections are tied with Selvie for the most ever garnered in one season by a Bull...FWAA Freshman All-America Team selection...posted a record-setting season that saw the Bay area native lead the nation with three kickoff returns for touchdowns, tie an NCAA game record with two 100-yard returns in the same game and break the Bulls' season return average record...first team all-conference selection from Phil Steele.

Broke the Bulls' 18-year-old season kick return average record set by J.R. Reed in 2003 (31.7)....Named the American Athletic Conference Special Teams Player of the Week twice on the 2021 season ...had an NCAA record-tying performance vs. Houston (11/6) with two 100-yard kickoff returns in the game... joined Utah's Reggie Dunn (vs. Cal in 2012) as the only two players in NCAA history to post two 100-yard kickoff returns in the same game, part of three touchdowns and 236 all-purpose yards in the game...also scored on a 29-yard touchdown run and his 208 kickoff return yards in the game rank second all-time at USF behind Terrence Horne's 264 vs. Georgia Tech in 2018...posted a 100-yard return vs. Tulsa (10/16) and finished the season with three, one behind Dunn's NCAA record of four posted in the 2012 season - South Florida Football

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RB Brian Battie, Auburn
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07/14/22 - Derick Hall, Sr/2023, Auburn, 6-3, 254 (DS#5 OLB) + More +

Auburn football has its trio of representatives at next week's Southeastern Conference Media Days in Atlanta, the SEC announced Tuesday, as running back Tank Bigsby, edge rusher Derick Hall and tight end John Samuel Shenker will make the trip east. All three will be first-time attendees, as former Auburn quarterback Bo Nix and linebacker Owen Pappoe attended for the Tigers a year ago. A year ago, Hall led the Tigers in both tackles for loss (12.5) and sacks (9), combining with Eku Leota for 22 tackles for loss and 16 sacks, marking one of the more productive pass-rushing duos in recent memory on the Plains. - Opelika-Auburn News

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OLB Derick Hall, Auburn
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07/14/22 - *Tank Bigsby, Jr/2023, Auburn, 6-0, 215 (DS#8 RB) + More +

Tank Bigsby has been Auburn's best offensive weapon during each of his first two seasons on the Plains. Now, heading into Year 3, Bigsby finds himself as the fulcrum of Auburn's revamped offense - and at No. 2 in AL.com's countdown of the 10 most valuable Auburn players heading into the season. The 6-foot, 213-pound running back is expected to be the focal point of Auburn's offense this season - the foundation upon which first-year offensive coordinator Eric Kiesau's system is built - as he tries to build off his 1,000-yard campaign in 2021. Bigsby has been as-advertised during his first two seasons at Auburn, first rushing for 834 (while averaging 6.05 yards per carry) while being named the SEC Freshman of the Year during the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, then following it up with 1,099 yards and 10 touchdowns (on 4.93 yards per carry) last fall.

Bigsby became the first Auburn running back to eclipse the 1,000-yard mark in a season since Kerryon Johnson in 2017, and now he'll have a chance to be the first Tigers running back since Tre Mason in 2012-13 to post back-to-back such seasons. More than just replicating his success from the last two years, though, Bigsby will be counted on as a key component of Auburn's run-first philosophy, as Kiesau and second-year head coach Bryan Harsin try to optimize the junior's elite-level skillset and build the Tigers' offense around him. - Birmingham News

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RB *Tank Bigsby, Auburn
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07/13/22 - Derick Hall, Sr/2023, Auburn, 6-3, 254 (DS#5 OLB) + More +

Derick Hall enters the 2022 season with lots of acclaim for his previous success on the gridiron. He was named to the 76th AL.com/The Birmingham News All-SEC Preseason 1st team. Auburn's hopes of bouncing back from last season will partially rest on Hall and his bookend Eku Leota making life tough on opposing quarterbacks in the Southeastern Conference.

Hall posted 54 tackles, 34 solos, 12.5 tackles for loss, and nine sacks last season for the Tigers. Hall anchors a defensive line that expects to be a bruising unit. "Really just getting better. Coming in day in and day out, pushing the younger guys, really working on bringing somebody along because when I leave, somebody's going to have to step into that role," Hall told reporters during spring practice. Trying to get better day in and day out, whether pass rush, run block, hands placement - little stuff that helps take you to the next level is the stuff I'm working on every day." - Birmingham News

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OLB Derick Hall, Auburn
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07/12/22 - Owen Pappoe, Sr/2023, Auburn, 6-0, 225 (DS#5 ILB) + More +

Perhaps no one in the Tigers facility other than head coach Bryan Harsin is seeking a redemptive 2022 campaign more than Owen Pappoe. The Senior linebacker entered the 2021 season with high hopes for a marriage of team and individual success leading him to become a high-round draft pick. Pappoe started in his first game as a freshman in 2019 against Oregon at Jordan Hare. He started every game he played in until getting injured against Penn State in a road loss last season. Pappoe had 49 tackles and two sacks in 2019 as a freshman. He followed the solid freshman season in 2020 with four sacks and 93 tackles. He also entered the 2021 season as an All-SEC selection. Alas, the injury derailed Pappoe's season in a way that mirrored the final five games for the Tigers.

Pappoe was limited in spring football because of the ailment but was actively engaged with the team. He should be a full participant this fall. "Owen, yeah, he is not practicing now, but in the long run, that is going to be the best thing because they are getting those things fixed," defensive coordinator Jeff Schmedding said. There's a guy who is not practicing, but is as locked-in and diligent about everything he does as I have seen." "He takes care of his body. It is an opportunity to lead in a little different way than maybe he wants to, but he is a kid who is learning the game even as he is watching. A lot of guys can't do that. He does that." - Birmingham News

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ILB Owen Pappoe, Auburn
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07/12/22 - *Colby Wooden, Jr/2023, Auburn, 6-4, 278 (DS#16 DE) + More +

Colby Wooden could have declared for the NFL Draft this offseason, but he instead decided to return to Auburn for his redshirt junior year. That was one of the biggest wins of the offseason for Bryan Harsin's program, as the 6-foot-5, 284-pound defensive lineman checks in at No. 4 on AL.com's MVP 10 list heading into 2022. Wooden was a force along the line for Auburn last season, posting career-highs in tackles (61), sacks (five) and quarterback hurries (seven). His 8.5 tackles for loss were one off his career-best from 2020 (9.5) and are third-most among Auburn's returning players this fall, behind only edge-rushers Derick Hall (12.5 in 2021) and Eku Leota (10).

Wooden will aim to build off those numbers as a junior this fall as he anchors what should be a stout unit along the defensive line - a group that returns Hall and Leota on the edge, as well as Marcus Harris and other promising depth pieces while adding the likes of Jayson Jones, Jeffrey M'Ba, Marcus Bragg and Morris Joseph Jr. After flourishing in a new role in 2021, Wooden should bring All-SEC potential to the interior of Auburn's defensive line - and if his trajectory continues into 2022, it could be a harbinger of just how good the Tigers' defensive front can be this season under new defensive coordinator Jeff Schmedding. - Birmingham News

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DE *Colby Wooden, Auburn
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07/11/22 - *Tank Bigsby, Jr/2023, Auburn, 6-0, 215 (DS#8 RB) + More +

A month out from the start of Auburn football's fall camp, and preseason accolades and outlooks have already begun to roll in. In June, both Athlon and Phil Steele named multiple Tigers to their preseason All-SEC teams. Auburn had nine players on the Athlon preseason All-SEC teams, with running back Tank Bigsby and defensive lineman Derick Hall named first team All-SEC. Bigsby is coming off a sophomore season in which he rushed for 1,099 yards, leading Auburn in that category and posting the fourth-most rush yards in the SEC.

He also had the eighth-most all-purpose yards in the conference with 1,286. "I'm looking for big things out of Tank," Auburn running backs coach Cadillac Williams said of Bigsby during spring practices. "The kid has had a really good spring. He's working hard. His practice habits are getting a lot better. He slowly but surely is starting to get the whole, big picture." With Auburn losing two of its top three receivers from a season ago in Kobe Hudson and Demetris Robinson, as well as trying to replace former starting quarterback Bo Nix, it's largely expected that the Tigers will emphasize the run this year and that Bigsby will take a larger role in the offense. "I can do a lot of things," Bigsby said following Auburn's A-Day game. "Coach Harsin's got me everywhere. You know, got me in the slot receiver, running back- he's got me just doing everything. He wants to get me the ball in the open field and do what I have to do." - Opelika-Auburn News

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RB *Tank Bigsby, Auburn
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07/11/22 - Nehemiah Pritchett, rSr/2024, Auburn, 6-0, 190 (DS#22 CB) + More +

Auburn's All-America cornerback is out the door, now with the Tennessee Titans after being picked in the second round of the NFL Draft. Roger McCreary's departure after being a stalwart cover corner for the Tigers has left a hole in Auburn's secondary - but that's nothing new for a program that has had a run of successful cornerbacks over the last several years. No. 6 in AL.com's MVP 10 countdown could be the next in that lineage: senior corner Nehemiah Pritchett. The 6-foot-1, 182-pounder has been a contributor in Auburn's secondary since his freshman season, and after starting eight games opposite McCreary last fall, Pritchett could be tasked with stepping into a starring role this season.

It's an assignment Pritchett, as well as his coaches, believes he's well-suited for. "He is one of those guys that, when you went down there toward the end when they were doing the maxes (in the weight room in the winter), like he was a different person," defensive coordinator Jeff Schmedding said. "I mean, there's no question about his speed. He can run. But to be a complete football player, having some more of that body armor and things like that - and I also see the confidence. He's not a real loud type of player off the field, but he is one of our guys in our leadership group on defense. He's stepped into that role. We expect a lot out of him. "...And I think he's going to be a more complete player. He can certainly cover and certainly run. But I like what we see with his effort and his opportunity for some leadership in that, too." - Birmingham News

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CB Nehemiah Pritchett, Auburn
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