The backup plan for Auburn football at QB if they miss on Spencer Sanders and Brennan Armstrong

The Auburn football quarterback room is one that feels close to a resolution one way or another soon — either Hugh Freeze and Philip Montgomery roll with Robby Ashford, Holden Geriner, and incoming freshman Hank Brown out of Lipscomb Academy in Nashville or they add another signal-caller through the transfer portal.

With bowl season coming to an end, just about every portal entry has made their intentions to transfer known. Whoever AU is going to add is already out there and likely being spoken to by Freeze and co.

The Montgomery Advertiser’s Richard Silva offered a backup plan in his transfer portal options piece should the Tigers strike out on both former Oklahoma State signal-caller Spencer Sanders and Virginia QB Brennan Armstrong. That’d be Purdue defector Brady Allen, whose former team will be giving Texas Longhorn Hudson Card the reigns to the Boilermakers’ offense:

"“(Brady) Allen, who was a four-star recruit and the No. 10 quarterback in the class of 2022, according to the 247Sports Composite, logged just three pass attempts with the Boilermakers last season. The staff who recruited him to Purdue, led by coach Jeff Brohm, was replaced this offseason.”“If Freeze wants to bring in a young quarterback with multiple years of eligibility remaining, Allen should be a prime candidate.”"

What Auburn football adding Brady Allen would mean for the Tigers QB1 role

Brady Allen would give Hugh Freeze and Philip Montgomery another pro-style gunslinger in the vein of Hank Brown and Holden Geriner. It’d also make Robby Ashford the most experienced quarterback in the room, likely pushing the incumbent starter back into the QB1 role.

Spencer Sanders and Brennan Armstrong may require assurances they’d start wherever they land, but Freeze should keep the QB competition open during fall camp — though, unlike his predecessor, he shouldn’t let the competition spill over into the regular season.

Allen is an addition that’d feature plenty of potential, but it’d be one that’d maintain the status quo under center.