[autotag]Jake Levant[/autotag] had quite the Saturday.
[autotag]Bryan Harsin[/autotag] called the team together to correct Levant for throwing his hands up during a special teams drill like he was guilty. Harsin then dropped the bomb that he was “guilty of getting a full scholarship.”
Auburn’s newest scholarship player was soon mobbed by his teammates to celebrate the achievement.
“It was honestly surreal,” Levant said afterwards. “It took me a second to realize it was happening because he’s like calling me out for putting my hands up and then all of a sudden people are jumping on me and I’m like, ‘What just happened?’ And I just realized he said, ‘scholarship.’ So it was really just surreal.”
Levant is entering his sophomore season after deciding to walk on at Auburn despite having scholarship offers from Troy and UAB. He proved his worth last season, playing in eight games as a special teams player.
While the 6-foot-1, 224-pound Levant may have a tough time cracking the linebacker rotation, he should once again be a key contributor on special teams.
His big day was not over though, he capped the practice off by picking off quarterback Zach Calzada in a 7-on-7 drill.
Scholarship EARNED!!
Congratulations, @LevantJake 🙌#WarEagle🦅 pic.twitter.com/Emg1zIn9PZ
— Auburn Football (@AuburnFootball) August 20, 2022
As @LevantJake told the media afterward, an interception in practice was the “cherry on top” of getting a scholarship today pic.twitter.com/K9X7C60f54
— Christian Clemente (@CClemente247) August 20, 2022
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