Auburn football: Derek Mason/Zac Etheridge eyeing 4-star Tennessee CB

Auburn football defensive coordinator Derek Mason and CB coach Zac Etheridge have set a campus visit for a Class of 2022 cornerback.

Myles Pollard, a six-foot-two, 185-pound corner out of Ravenwood High School in Brentwood, Tennessee is the second CB being targeted by Bryan Harsin’s support staff.

The first, Jarell Stinson, initially committed to the program the day after Gus Malzahn’s firing back in December but has since reopened his recruitment. Florida State could be a threat to poach the Opelika product.

Pollard announced the official visit on his personal Twitter page:

On his Twitter bio, Pollard has himself listed as a 4-star recruit, while 247Sports has him listed as a 3-star. Not that it matters, anyway, considering he still has his high school senior year to play, and well, players outperform (and underperform relative to) expectations.

This is Pollard’s third official campus visit with a Power 5 school. His first visit will take place on June 11th in Ann Arbor, Michigan with the Jim Harbaugh-coached Wolverines. A week later, he will visit Oklahoma in Norman, while his official Plains visit comes a week after that.

In addition to the defending Big 12 champion Sooners and the underperforming Big Blue, two SEC schools are also in contention. Steve Clinkscale has headed up the Big Blue of the South’s (Kentucky) recruitment of the lengthy corner, while Tim Banks and Willie Martinez have headed up the efforts to keep Pollard home by bringing him to Rocky Top.

Surely, more schools will enter the bidding war for Pollard as he continues to show what he’s got in his senior year of high school. The Volunteers have the home-field advantage, but a big first-year showing from Harsin’s Auburn football Tigers could convince Pollard to join a school that just had two former members of the secondary win a Super Bowl ring, and has three potential NFL Draft picks (Jamien Sherwood, Christian Tutt, Jordyn Peters) this year as well.