Auburn football: Shaun Shivers looks like next big thing among Tigers’ history of smaller backs
By Rob Maxwell
![Freshman Shaun Shivers showed that he can be a threat in this Auburn offense. (Photo by Michael Chang/Getty Images) Freshman Shaun Shivers showed that he can be a threat in this Auburn offense. (Photo by Michael Chang/Getty Images)](https://images2.minutemediacdn.com/image/upload/c_fill,w_720,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto/shape/cover/sport/3c0e0c15e8bd659c3c167ab40202ba4b7595dc9b7b8069a9bdaf8d435174df2a.jpg)
Tre Mason
If you’re an Auburn football fan and Tre Mason isn’t one of your all-time favorite Tigers, there’s something wrong with you.
At 5-9, 205, Mason’s career on the Plains started slow, took off and then shot into the stratosphere.
As a freshman, he ran 28 times for 161 yards and a touchdown. Not bad.
In 2012, he kept the 1,000-yard rusher streak intact when he rushed for five yards on the final play of Alabama’s 49-0 rout of the Tigers.
Here’s more of what he did for the Tigers:
- Ran for 1,816 yards and 23 touchdowns as a junior and was a Heisman Trophy finalist.
- Named All-American and All-SEC running back in 2013 when Auburn reached the BCS title game.
- Ranked sixth all-time in Auburn history with 2,979 rushing yards.
- Tied for fourth with 32 rushing TDs.
- Holds Auburn single-season marks for 1,816 rushing yards and 23 touchdowns.
- In the SEC Championship Game in 2013 against Missouri, Mason ran 46 times for 304 yards and four touchdowns.
- He ran for 195 yards and a TD against FSU in the title game.
Mason was selected in the third round of the 2014 NFL Draft by St. Louis and currently is playing in the CFL.