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Incoming Auburn QB lauds ‘smart’ Tigers receivers

By Andrew Hughes

Incoming Auburn football QB Hank Brown was highly complimentary of the Tigers' receiving core during a conversation with Zac Blackerby of Locked On Auburn Mandatory Credit: The Tennessean
Incoming Auburn football QB Hank Brown was highly complimentary of the Tigers' receiving core during a conversation with Zac Blackerby of Locked On Auburn Mandatory Credit: The Tennessean /
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Incoming Auburn football quarterback Hank Brown lauded the Tigers’ receivers during a conversation with Locked On Auburn’s Zac Blackerby — saying the room was filled with “smart” route-runners who have an attention to detail when it comes to their technique.

“It’s awesome to see how smart these receivers are and see like how detailed all the different techniques that they’re using,” Brown told Blackerby (h/t Auburn Daily’s Lance Dawe). “So that was something that even just this morning, I was able to talk with them and see kind of how their mind is working through it so we can be on the same page.”

Brown led Lipscomb (Tenn.) Academy to a 13-0 record en route to a second straight Division II-AA state title in 2022, upsetting Birmingham-area powerhouse Thompson before helping his head coach Trent Dilfer land the head coaching job at UAB. To hear a highly-touted and supremely-skilled signal-caller speak so highly of a receiving corps that was a weakness for Bryan Harsin’s offense last season is a testament to the work head coach Hugh Freeze, offensive coordinator Philip Montgomery, and wide receivers coach Marcus Davis have done since December.

Incoming Auburn football QB Hank Brown on the difference between high school and college football

Brown is adjusting to how things are done at the SEC/Power Five level, and as he noted, it’s a “deeper” conversation to be had between a quarterback and his coach and receiving corps now than it was in high school.

“It’s definitely a deeper conversation,” Brown said. “Especially here for the receivers, you really have to be on the same page as them. And as far as knowing what they’re doing, they have different options and choices on every different route. That’s huge in building that chemistry, especially here.”

Brown is expected to take a redshirt in 2023, but his future will be bright if he can master the adjustment of going from even one of the bigger high school football programs in the south to the shark-infested waters of the SEC.

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