Auburn football transfer portal: Tigers potentially in on Big 12 QB

We are five days into the spring transfer portal window, and one of the Auburn football team’s main goals for the spring window is to find a transfer quarterback to join the ranks. While the Tigers are returning starter Robby Ashford, TJ Finley, and redshirt-freshman Holden Geriner, things are still up in the air about the situation.

Ashford, though inexperienced, has major potential and is great on his feet, but can he improve his accuracy enough to be the starter that Hugh Freeze needs this fall? TJ Finley has had multiple changes to prove himself, and it seems as though he has failed each time, and he has also hinted that he will be entering the portal before it closes on April 30. Holden Geriner has shown flashes of greatness, but has never played meaningful snaps of college football and is young and even more inexperienced than Robby.

What Freeze and the coaching staff want out of the portal is a proven quarterback with experience, someone who can lead the Tigers out of the hole they have dug themselves into over the past two seasons. Could recent transfer portal entry Ben Bryant be the answer?

The former Cincinnati QB entered the portal earlier today as a grad transfer, began his college career with the Bearcats before transferring to Eastern Michigan for the 2021 season. He returned to Cincinnati in 2022, and started for the Bearcats last season.

At Eastern Michigan in 2021, Bryant threw for 3,121 yards and 14 touchdowns, and had two additional rushing touchdowns. At Cincinnati in 2022 he threw for 2,732 yards and 21 touchdowns. 247 Sports’ Clint Brewster posed an interesting question on Twitter about the transfer QB:

Though he may not fit into the exact mold of what Freeze wants in a quarterback, he has proven himself as capable of leading an offense successfully, and that seems to be the biggest priority for the Auburn football coaching staff at the moment.