Auburn football fans react to Kodi Burns heading to the NFL

This week, news broke that another position coach with ties to Auburn football will be heading to coach in the National Football League. Former Auburn player and position coach Kodi Burns will be joining the staff of the New Orleans Saints for the 2022-23 season.

Burns played wide receiver for Auburn football from 2007-2010, and had a key reception in the Tigers’ national championship game in 2010 against Oregon. He joined the Tigers’ coaching staff in 2016 and spent two years as the co-offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach and spent 2019-2020 as the pass game coordinator and wide receivers coach.

Following the dismissal of Gus Malzahn on the Plains, Burns spent the 2021-2022 season at Tennessee coaching the Vols’ wide receivers, and will now take the same position with the Saints on new Saints head coach Dennis Allen’s inaugural staff.

As Auburn football is currently without a wide receivers coach, Tiger fans would have loved for Burns to make his homecoming to the Plains, but are equally excited for the former Tiger to get his shot in the NFL:

Burns is the second former Auburn staffer to announce a move up to the big league in the past few weeks, along with former outside linebackers coach and special teams coordinator Bert Watts, who announced he would be moving on to join the Denver Broncos staff as the outside linebackers coach.

Meanwhile, Auburn football is slated to start spring practices in less than a month and is still searching for their next wide receivers coach under Bryan Harsin.