Auburn football recruiting: Thompson’s star eighth grade QB visiting Plains this weekend
Hugh Freeze is signed on to be the head coach of Auburn football for the next six years, and he’s already looking to line up his starting signal-caller for his fifth season under contract. Thompson High School’s Trent Seaborn, the star eighth-grade gunslinger who led the Warriors to a 7A state title, is visiting the Plains this coming weekend.
I will be at @AuburnFootball this weekend‼️ @CoachHughFreeze @CoachPMonty #WarEagle🦅@loganm_au @coachjessestone @TrovonReed @ChadSimmons_ @ITATJason @NathanKing247 @Auburn247 @samspiegs @JLeeAULive @adamgorney @SWiltfong247 @calebj_rivals @on3keith @BHoward_11 @JeremyO_Johnson pic.twitter.com/IFJiVtfVBn
— Trent Seaborn 2027 QB (@TrentSeaborn) January 25, 2023
Seaborn threw five touchdown passes in a 49-24 victory over Auburn High School during the Class 7A championship at Jordan-Hare Stadium on November 30 — good for the 7A all-time record for TD throws in a title game.
Landing premier in-state talent would be massive win for Hugh Freeze’s Auburn football tenure
Besides a few gimmes like Auburn High’s Bradyn Joiner and Montgomery Catholic’s Jeremiah Cob, who were likely to commit to AU under Gus Malzahn, Bryan Harsin, or basically anyone who would be coaching the Tigers, the last regime was not able to establish in-state ties with local high school head coaches and thus missed out on plenty of in-state talent.
Hugh Freeze has that covered.
Coach Freeze and @AuburnFootball stopped by early this morning to check out all the hype going on at Central! pic.twitter.com/0Hu2vdOKT5
— Central High School Recruiting (@RecruitDevils) January 26, 2023
Freeze has kept Kedric Faulk (Highland Home) and Sylvester Smith (Munford) in-state, but landing a premier talent — particularly someone from Thompson, a school that has built a well-known pipeline to Alabama and even copes the Crimson Tide schematically — would begin to elevate Auburn football to the level Alabama and Georgia have resided in the past several years.
Luckily, Freeze is doing everything possible to move the needle for the Tigers. It may not take long for AU to get there.