Auburn football’s future seems strong thanks to landing the top seven class in the 2024 rankings.

In On3’s top 200 players in the 2024 class, Auburn has seven players who could all play early during their time on the Plains in Hugh Freeze’s program.

Cam Coleman, the wide receiver from Central Phenix-City, is Auburn’s highest-rated signee. He is the third overall player in the class and the second-ranked wide receiver.

Auburn quarterback signee Walker White is Auburn’s second highest-rated player in the 2024 class by On3. He’s ranked as the 95th overall player in the class.

Auburn wide receiver Perry Thompson is the 98th overall player in the rankings. Fellow wide receiver signee Bryce Cain from Baker, Alabama is ranked as the 147th player in the class.

A late addition to the 2024 class, defensive end/EDGE Amaris Williams is ranked as the 150th-best player in the class and Auburn’s overall best defensive standout.

Linebacker Joseph Phillips from Booker T Washington in Tuskegee, Alabama came in as the 177th player in the 2024 class. He will be playing next to Demarcus Riddick, the linebacker standout from Chilton County, is ranked as the 189th player in the class.

Auburn’s freshman class will need to be ready for action early in their time on the Plains, especially the wide receiver group and defensive linemen. Freeze may elect to go younger in those two key position groups in 2024 to help prepare for the future of the Auburn football program.

Auburn opens the season on August 31 against Alabama A&M.

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Auburn’s Hugh Freeze talks recent staff changes, offers update on defensive coordinator search

After a notable staff shakeup within Auburn’s football program, head coach Hugh Freeze finally broke his silence Friday afternoon during an appearance at the Alabama Football Coaches Association Convention in Montgomery.

Caught in the lobby of the Embassy Suites hotel by WSFA 12′s Seth Carpenter, Freeze offered up a few words about Auburn’s offseason full of staff changes, first addressing his decision to bring aboard former Ole Miss associate head coach and wide receivers coach Derrick Nix as Auburn’s next offensive coordinator and running backs coach.

“My history with D-Nix goes back to our Ole Miss days,” Freeze said. “He’s an incredible man, No. 1, and he’s an incredible recruiter. Excited about having someone who knows our system to be able to add great value to our offense.”

Freeze and Nix previously worked together at Ole Miss, where Nix served as the Rebels’ running backs coach throughout Freeze’s five-year tenure in Oxford.

The hiring of Nix was announced on Jan. 17, just six days after the shocking resignation of former Auburn associate head coach and running backs coach Cadillac Williams, and 12 days after Freeze announced he wouldn’t be retaining offensive coordinator Philip Montgomery.

And considering part of Montgomery’s role was overseeing Auburn’s quarterbacks, Freeze also needed to locate a quarterback coach to fill the void. Fortunately for Freeze, he didn’t need to look far as he went on to elevate Kent Austin from assistant to the head coach/quality control to quarterbacks coach.

“Kent’s the best quarterbacks coach I’ve ever been around,” Freeze said Friday. “Fundamentally, execution, coverage recognition and obviously a great comfort level having done that with him for four years at Liberty.”

Austin served as co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach during Freeze’s entire four-year tenure at Liberty and helped develop former Auburn quarterback Malik Willis into a third-round draft pick in the 2022 NFL Draft.

And while Freeze has made efforts to quickly fill the openings on his staff, also adding former Colorado defensive coordinator Charles Kelly as Auburn’s co-defensive coordinator, there’s still one vacancy to be filled: Auburn’s second co-defensive coordinator.

Freeze’s hunt for a second defensive coordinator comes after Ron Roberts jumped ship to Florida after serving one season as Auburn’s defensive coordinator, as well as the resignation of defensive backs coach Zac Etheridge, who recently accepted a similar role at Houston.