Former Auburn Tigers receiver Cam Coleman is reportedly eating right and hitting the weights hard in Austin, Texas. Coleman's Longhorns career is going exactly how Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian and Co. would want at this point in the spring.
CBS Sports' Chris Hummer and Matt Zenitz heard from sources that Coleman has more of a Julio Jones build than an AJ Green build now in the Longhorns locker room. Per the source, "I think his body has changed over the last six months, and it's been really impressive ... He's gone from a very lean AJ Green-esque body to more of a very built and ready Julio (Jones). It's very impressive to see the weight he's put on and still maintain the speed and the catch radius. He put together a really impressive spring."
While UT Austin didn't hold a traditional spring game, there was an open practice at DKR Stadium. Coleman looked every bit like the No. 2 receiver behind the Ohio State Buckeyes' Jeremiah Smith in a stacked 2024 high school class.
We should've seen this coming. Longhorns quarterback Arch Manning made it very clear that Coleman was putting in the work. Per Manning last month, "He's an elite player ... And he wants to be good, which is the most encouraging thing. He's a hard worker. I'm excited."
Of course, we know Coleman wasn't taking his career as seriously as he should have on the Plains, but we're not going to be blaming Coleman for that. Hugh Freeze's culture was a laissez-faire operation that enabled it.
Cam Coleman is about to make Auburn fans sad this fall in Texas
A generational receiver recruit looks to finally be finding his footing on the team that's projected to be No. 1 in 2026. Coleman should've been doing this a half an hour away down I85 from his native Phenix City.
With a revenue juggernaut like the Longhorns, Coleman has endless resources. He has an equally generational QB in Manning, star teammates in the WR room like Ryan Wingo and Emmett Mosley V, and the world-class Moncrief-Neuhaus Athletic Center. That almost certainly will lead to improved performance, barring the catastrophic.
True Auburn fans want to see Coleman do well, but not too well, especially if the Tigers aren't thriving with Alex Golesh and his USF Bulls transfer receivers. Seeing him play like the elite wideout everyone knew he could be would be disappointing in at least two distinct ways.
Knowing AU holds back in-state recruits, and then seeing it in action, could give recruits pause for years to come. It also doesn't help that Texas could be beating the very teams Auburn can't, like the Georgia Bulldogs, Oklahoma Sooners, and Missouri Tigers, en route to SEC glory that feels unattainable for the AU Tigers.
There's just something about a big city program with endless pockets make something of the hometown kid who couldn't achieve his dreams because higher-ups were not being held accountable for their errors, which trickled down to Coleman not being held accountable.
We're living through it, but it's probably about to become much harder in a few months when the season kicks off.
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