Auburn football recruiting tension reaches all-time high following massive commitment flip
By Brooks Crew
On November 13, 5-star WR Caleb Cunningham announced he would be flipping his commitment from Alabama to Ole Miss. Though this may seem completely unrelated to Auburn football’s recruiting, this flip has massive implications for arguably the most important recruit on the team: four-star QB Deuce Knight.
Knight flipped his commitment from Notre Dame to Auburn on the second of October, despite having kept his commitment to the Fighting Irish for over a year. The six-foot-five, 206-pounder out of Mississippi was a massive pickup for the Tigers, who’ve famously struggled with quarterback play throughout the season.
The dual-threat southpaw quickly made his value to Auburn blatantly obvious, accounting for over 650 yards and nine touchdowns in a high school matchup closely following his commitment to Auburn.
Knight had an official Ole Miss visit last Saturday, along with his friend, Cunningham, and watched the Rebels systematically take apart the previously one-loss Georgia Bulldogs. This was the Dawgs' first loss that wasn’t to Alabama in almost three years.
Following the game, the Ole Miss fans and students rushed the field to celebrate, with Cunningham and Knight among them. With this in mind, expert predictions were logged for Cunningham to flip to Ole Miss, and this morning, he did.
Deuce Knight is still committed to Auburn football
No predictions at this time have been logged for Knight to flip his commitment but, in the wake of Cunningham’s flip from the Tide, anything is possible.
Unfortunately, no recruit or player is safe in the modern landscape of college football. Hugh Freeze made that clear earlier this week, lamenting the pains of the recruiting game no longer applying to just high-school recruits.
Freeze recognized that now, his locker room isn’t definitively his for long.
"When you're playing as many young kids as we are that are very talented that we signed in the '24 class, their phones are going to ring," said Freeze.
Perhaps, one of his biggest slips won't be his for long either.