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Key Auburn WR target Ny Carr decommits from Georgia

Can Hugh Freeze and Co. pull off another flip?

One of Auburn’s top targets is back on the open market.

Four-star wide receiver [autotag]Ny Carr[/autotag] had been committed to the Georgia Bulldogs since July 2022 but on Sunday he announced he was decommitting from the Bulldogs. This could be good news for Auburn as they have kept recruiting him and he visited for Big Cat Weekend in July.

Carr is the No. 53 overall player and No. 11 wide receiver in the 247Sports composite ranking. The Moultrie product is also the No. 9 player from Georgia.

He would be another great addition to what is a loaded class at wide receiver, potentially joining five-star [autotag]Perry Thompson[/autotag] and four-stars [autotag]Bryce Cain[/autotag] and [autotag]Malcolm Simmons[/autotag]. With Auburn’s wide receivers struggling to make an impact to start the season, wide receivers coach [autotag]Marcus Davis[/autotag] is looking to bring in a big class.

Auburn isn’t the only school that is making a push for Carr, Florida State and Miami are both looking to lure him out of the Peach State.

The 6-foot, 170-pounder has had a strong start to his senior season, catching 30 passes for 489 yards and nine touchdowns in four games for Colquitt County.

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Tracking the Tigers: Where Auburn’s commits will play in Week 4

A matchup between Perry Thompson and Bryce Cain highlights this week’s matchups.

It is nearly time for another slate of high school football games and several Auburn commits have some exciting matchups.

The top game will be the showdown between wide receiver commits [autotag]Perry Thompson[/autotag] and [autotag]Bryce Cain[/autotag]. Cain and Baker are traveling to Foley with a 3-0 record and looking to keep their offense humming.

All but three of Auburn’s commits had games this week with only [autotag] DeAndre Cater[/autotag] (Mater Dei) and [autotag]Malcolm Simmons[/autotag] (Benjamin Russell) having byes. Cornerback commit [autotag]A’Mon Lane[/autotag] is set to miss some time after announcing on Thursday that he underwent surgery for a dislocated knee cap.

Two of Auburn’s commits suited up on Thursday instead of on Friday and went 1-1. [autotag]Kensley Fasutin[/autotag] and Naples suffered their first loss of the season, falling to 3-1. [autotag]Dimitry Nicolas[/autotag] and Norlan improved to 4-0 with a 42-7 win over Monsignor Pace. Stats for both games have not been released yet.

Here is a look at where the rest of Auburn’s commits will be playing this week.

Auburn offers elite 2025 WR Cortez Mills

He is one of the top players in the 2025 recruiting cycle.

Auburn’s recruiting has kicked it up several notches under [autotag]Hugh Freeze[/autotag] and the Tigers are looking to keep the momentum going.

While it’s the 2024 class that has gotten the attention, Auburn’s coaches are starting to work on the 2025 cycle and on Friday they offered [autotag]Cortez Mills[/autotag], one of the top wide receivers in the country.

Mills is from Homestead, Florida, and already has over two dozen offers and more are surely on the way for the talented pass catcher. He is the No. 98 overall player and No. 16 wide receiver in the 247Sports Composite ranking. He is also the No. 19 player from the Sunshine State.

Making the jump from the Sun Belt to the SEC, Auburn wide receiver coach [autotag]Marcus Davis[/autotag] has proven he can recruit at the highest level and Mills would be another big get. He has already flipped five-star wide receiver [autotag]Perry Thompson[/autotag] from Alabama and landed four-star targets [autotag]Bryce Cain[/autotag] and [autotag]Malcolm Simmons[/autotag], all in less than one year on the job.

The Tigers currently have one commit in their 2025 class, four-star defensive lineman [autotag]Malik Autry[/autotag].

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Watch: Walker White and Bryce Cain go through drills ahead of Big Cat Weekend

White and Cain continued working to build a strong bond over the weekend.

Many of Auburn’s top targets, and even some commitments, flocked to campus for Big Cat Weekend.

Auburn landed two wide receiver commitments during the weekend, which brings their total to three for the 2024 cycle. Auburn fans are already dreaming of what it will be like to watch Auburn’s talented commitments hit the field, and wide receiver commit [autotag]Bryce Cain[/autotag] provided a preview of what that could look like.

He posted videos of a workout that he did with four-star quarterback commitment [autotag]Walker White[/autotag] on X, formerly known as Twitter. The videos showed the pair working out at Duck Samford Stadium, with Cain running routes while White passed him the football.

The duo has built a strong bond ever since working out together during a 7v7 camp at Auburn in June. White had a great first impression of Cain.

“Man, (Cain) was good,” White said in an interview with 247Sports in June. “He just was flying out. His dad, who was a quarterback at Miami, he came up to me and was like, ‘Dude you’ve got a pistol.’ And I was like, ‘Yeah I’ve got a pistol but this dude’s got wheels on him.’ He was just really fast and I got to meet Bryce. He just had a really good attitude, he was a smiling dude. Easy to talk to and I’m actually going to hit him up after I leave and try to get him here.”

Watch White toss passes to Cain here:

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Four-star WR Malcolm Simmons commits to Auburn

The first domino has fallen at Big Cat Weekend, as Auburn lands one of Alabama’s top recruits from the 2024 class.

The first domino has fallen at Big Cat Weekend.

The first commitment of the weekend belongs to [autotag]Malcolm Simmons[/autotag]. Simmons chose the Tigers over Arkansas, Liberty, West Virginia and UCF.

It appeared Auburn was at the forefront of Simmons’ recruiting since extending an offer in April, but predictions that linked Simmons to Auburn have come in droves from the recruiting experts at 247Sports and On3 during the past 10 days. Steve Wiltfong of 247Sports gave Auburn a crystal ball prediction on July 20. On3’s Jeffrey Lee submitted a prediction ahead of the start of Big Cat Weekend.

Simmons visited Auburn last month and told Jason Caldwell of Auburn Undercover that it became a turning point in his recruitment.

“It was humongous for me,” Simmons said. “Just getting my relationships better with the coaches was big and them telling me just to be patient. Their message is that everything is going to work out for itself. Just be patient.”

Simmons is the 13th player to commit to Auburn’s 2024 recruiting class, and he is the second wide receiver to do so, joining four-star [autotag]Bryce Cain[/autotag]. He is the No. 33 overall athlete in the 2024 cycle and is the No. 21 recruit from the state of Alabama according to 247Sports.

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Auburn receives another projection for four-star WR Malcolm Simmons

The four-star wide receiver from Alexander City will attend Big Cat Weekend. Can Auburn keep the local product close to home?

After securing the commitment of five-star linebacker [autotag]Demarcus Riddick[/autotag] earlier this week, Auburn could reel in another talented in-state product as its next commitment.

It is no secret that Auburn has been at the top of four-star wide receiver [autotag]Malcolm Simmons[/autotag]’ list for a while. With his commitment date looming, the Tigers seem to be in a great position to land him.

Earlier this month, Steve Wiltfong of 247Sports submitted a crystal ball projection for Simmons in favor of Auburn. Ahead of Big Cat Weekend, Jeffrey Lee of On3 has joined the party. He submitted a projection on Thursday that Simmons will commit to Auburn, with 60% confidence.

In an interview with Chad Simmons of On3, the Alexander City product says that Auburn has been persistent in their recruitment, and has recruited him the hardest. That is why the Tigers are the frontrunners.

“Auburn is on top for me because of the coaches, the fan base, and how they have recruited me,” Simmons said in an interview with On3. “It is a great place, the staff would be great to play for and I am really high on them right now. I also like the recruits they are bringing in. I always talk to [autotag]Walker White[/autotag], [autotag]Bryce Cain[/autotag], [autotag]DeAngelo Barber[/autotag], and some others. They are great guys and they would be great to play with.”

Simmons is a four-star industry-rated athlete from the class of 2024 and is considered to be a top-25 recruit from the state of Alabama across all four recruiting outlets. According to On3’s Recruiting Prediction Machine, Liberty is the lone program that is contending with Auburn to land Simmons. However, Auburn has a 98.4% chance to earn his commitment.

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Bryce Cain among highest risers in the latest On3 update

One of Auburn’s in-state hauls for 2024 has earned four-star status from On3.

[autotag]Bryce Cain[/autotag]is expected to be an instant difference maker when he arrives on the Plains.

The Mobile, Alabama native has impressed a lot of people and the experts at On3 are no exception. Cain was previously unranked in the On3 300 for the class of 2024, but he now checks in at the No. 187 spot.

On3 scout’s take on Cain: “Bryce Cain has taken advantage of summer camp season and has put on a clinic at every event he has attended. The juiced up wideout from Mobile, AL is a total beast. The athleticism has always been apparent on film and on the track, but he decided to put a stamp on it by running multiple 40-yard dash times in the high 4.3/low 4.4 territory at multiple colleges this summer. That top-end speed combined with his suddenness and ability to get in and out of his breaks is special. Does he lack ideal size for the next level? Sure. Does he lack ideal production at this point in his high school career? Sure. But with his verified athleticism and the fact that the film tells us he can play bigger and more effectively than his size or current production would infer, we choose to believe his best football is ahead of him.”

Cain is currently the only wide receiver in Auburn’s 2024 recruiting class but that can be expected to change.

 

SEC recruiting rankings: June update

The 2024 recruiting cycle has been kind to the Auburn Tigers thus far. How are they doing compared to the rest of the SEC?

The month of June has been a busy one in the world of recruiting, especially for the Auburn Tigers.

[autotag]Hugh Freeze[/autotag] and staff have welcomed a myriad of popular recruits to visit campus, and have been fortunate enough to earn three commitments at this point in the month.

The month started with the Tigers earning two commitments on the same day. Auburn beat out Ole Miss in the pursuit of three-star wide receiver [autotag]Bryce Cain[/autotag] on June 13. Later that day, four-star safety [autotag]Kensley Faustin[/autotag] announced that he would also be committing to Auburn.

The third commitment of the month was the most notable. [autotag]Joseph Phillips[/autotag], a four-star linebacker from nearby Tuskegee, chose Auburn over Georgia. Phillips is now Auburn’s second-highest-ranked commit for the 2024 cycle, and his commitment is declared a monster win for Freeze on the recruiting trail.

In other refreshing news, three 2024 commits announced that they would be “shutting down” their recruitment. Joining four-star quarterback [autotag]Walker White[/autotag] by doing this trend are tight end [autotag]Martavious Collins[/autotag], running back [autotag]J’Marion Burnette[/autotag], and defensive back [autotag]A’Mon Lane[/autotag].

As the month of June begins its final lap, here’s a look at how Auburn stacks up in recruiting with the rest of the SEC according to 247Sports’ composite rankings.

Local 4-star wide receiver puts Auburn in top seven schools

Malcolm Simmons is one of the top players in Alabama and the Tigers are looking to keep him home.

A few days after four-star wide receiver [autotag]Malcolm Simmons[/autotag] said that Auburn was one of his “top schools” he proved he’s a man of his word, putting Auburn in his top seven schools.

Simmons is from nearby Alexander City and will be deciding between Auburn, Arkansas, UCF, Coastal Carolina, West Virginia, Indiana and Liberty, he announced Thursday on Twitter.

He is one of the top athletes in the state of Alabama for the 2024 cycle and is a key Auburn target at the slot position where he uses speed and quickness allow him to get open as he continues to develop as a complete receiver.

The 6-foot, 165-pounder is coming off a great season for Benjamin Russell where he did it all on offense. He caught 31 passes for 513 yards and seven touchdowns and also rushed for 753 yards and 11 more touchdowns on 120 carries.

Simmons is the No. 334 overall player and No. 30 athlete in the 247Sports Composite ranking. He is also the No. 17 player from Alabama.

Auburn has already landed one wide receiver in three-star [autotag]Bryce Cain[/autotag] but the Tigers are expected to try and sign three or four wide receivers from high school in the 2024 recruiting cycle.

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Twitter reacts to Auburn landing Bryce Cain and Kensley Faustin

Auburn fans had plenty to say after the Tigers landed two commitments in one night.

It had been nearly two months since [autotag]Hugh Freeze[/autotag] and Auburn landed a commitment, but that changed Tuesday night.

The Tigers snagged not one, but two commits. Wide receiver [autotag]Bryce Cain[/autotag] and safety [autotag]Kensley Faustin[/autotag] both pledged to Auburn.

Cain, from Baker, Alabama, is a speedy wide receiver who thrives in the slot and can generate big plays. The 5-foot-11, 170-pounder is Auburn’s first commitment at wide receiver.

Faustin, a four-star prospect, is capable of playing anywhere in the secondary and can help in both coverage and run support. He joins cornerbacks A’Mon Lane and Jayden Lewis in what is rapidly becoming a loaded secondary class for Auburn.

The two commitments fired up the Auburn fan base, which took to Twitter to celebrate. Here are the top reactions: