Auburn's receiving corps is being celebrated as the Tigers' not-so-secret weapon ahead of the 2025 college football season. AL.com's Peter Rauterkus tabbed AU's WR room as its top position group, handing the majority of the credit to two transfers, Eric Singleton Jr. and Horatio Fields, and two members of the Freeze Four, Cam Coleman and Malcolm Simmons.
"When combining both collegiate production and natural talent, it’s hard to argue against wide receiver being Auburn’s best and deepest group on the team. With nine total scholarship players, the numbers are there, and the top four all have the ability to be the leading receiver in any game," Rauterkus wrote.
"The additions of Singleton and Fields add to Simmons and Coleman’s returning production. Turner, a true freshman, was one of the standouts during spring ball, and is someone who can compete for snaps alongside Thompson and Cain."
Freeze may have struck gold in the transfer portal at the position for the second straight year. KeAndre Lambert-Smith was Auburns best receiver by a mile in 2024, and he was rewarded by being selected in the fifth round of the 2025 NFL draft by the Chargers. Singleton and Fields have the chance to be for Jackson Arnold what KLS was for Payton Thorne.
Of course, Arnold is the variable that could make all this receiver chatter obsolete.
Arnold's dead-end throw rate at Oklahoma was uncomfortably high. If that continues, Freeze, Derrick Nix, and Kent Austin will have to scheme a more run-heavy attack.
Given the money Freeze spent on the receiver position, that'd be an abject failure to be forced to run a similar offense to Seth Littrell and Joe John Finley in Norman to account for Arnold's passing deficiencies.
Let's hope the Tigers' top position group looks the part in 2025. It's not entirely up to them, unfortunately.