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Birmingham News It's the highest rank any of Auburn's recruiting class has received since 2007 and highest rank by Collegiate Baseball since 1996 . . . Brooks, a 6-foot-10, 220-pound power forward from Auburn High, made an official visit to AU this past weekend . . . Ray has made unofficial visits to Auburn (vs. Clemson), Alabama (vs. Western Kentucky), Ole Miss (vs. Alabama) and recently Tennessee . . . Auburn Associate Head Coach Chuck Person was the lead recruiter in the Montgomery recruit . . . Auburn hosts LSU this weekend and the hosts look at a key visitor in C.J. Avery, plus two more official visitors . . . This weekend, Avery will take an official visit to the school to see Auburn play LSU . . . Jones went to Auburn last weekend on an unofficial visit to see the Tigers play Texas A&M . . . Check out a list of some prospects in this class that Auburn and LSU have battled for or are still battling for . . . He's the third Auburn commit to miss extended time this season with an injury . . . Spending time with Thompson and assistant Brad Bohannon as well as watching the team practice, the 6-1, 175 Gentry said the Monday trip was all he needed to push the Tigers past Georgia Tech . . . The duo also look at key visitors for last week's game, including official visitor Tarik Black . . . Auburn offered Watson this summer . . . Flowers notes that a few colleges are starting to show interest, including Auburn, which invited Johnson in for an unofficial visit to last Saturday's game vs. Arkansas State . . . Tarik Black, a 6-foot-4, 207-pound four-star receiver from Cheshire, Conn., made his official visit to Auburn one week after the same type of trip to Michigan . . . Auburn will have one official visitor this weekend in receiver Tarik Black . . . Auburn has offered and the Tigers and UAB are his leaders . . . What were the biggest reasons you chose Auburn? . . . Four-star defensive end Ryan Johnson attended the game and spoke highly of the unit after his overnight stay on campus . . . Hayes said that Auburn leads for his services . . . Three official visitors made the trip - Indiana standout athlete Russ Yeast and Kurt Rafdal and Colorado kicker Anders Carlson, an Auburn commitment . . . Wiley has transferred to Conrad Academy in Orlando, Fla., after playing his first three seasons of high school basketball at Spain Park in Hoover . . . Auburn is the only power 5 school who has offered . . . Williams is likely out for four to six weeks . . . Here are some recruits who plan to be at the game . . . Auburn made his next group of finalists along with Illinois, Iowa, Louisville, Ole Miss and Northwestern . . . Recruiters starting taking notice. During the offseason, Bo collected offers from Auburn, Florida State, Tennessee, Ole Miss and Kentucky . . . Logan Dye, a 6-8, 225-pound forward and center at Haleyville High School, showed a nice shooting touch, strength on the boards and good passing skills . . . Auburn was his dream school, but Peters made sure he was making the right decision . . . Devin Miller, a three-star tight end plans to check out Auburn, Purdue and Rutgers . . . WR Tyjon Lindsey has kept several universities in the mix, including Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, Michigan, Nebraska . . . Safety Jordyn Peters has emerged as a top Auburn target in recent weeks . . . Alaric Williams has scheduled an official visit to Nebraska this fall but feels like his Auburn commitment is extremely solid . . . "He decided he was going to leave," Auburn running backs coach Tim Horton said Monday. "Art Briles thinks a lot of Coach Malzahn, thinks a lot of our staff, thinks he's a good fit for us offensively and he gave us a really good recommendation to Kam Martin . . . Is McAdory athlete and Auburn commit Malcolm Askew underrated? . . . Peyton Glavine, the son of former Atlanta Braves great and Hall of Famer Tom Glavine, announced on his personal Twitter account Monday that he had committed to play for the Tigers . . . In addition to recruiting other prospects, Brahms enjoyed getting the chance to hang out with some of his fellow commitments such as Malcolm Askew and Austin Troxell . . . From Jeris McIntyre, a former Auburn captain and NFL wide receiver for the Kansas City Chiefs, to class of 2016 five-star pass catcher, Nate Craig-Myers, this is a college that's always had a strong liking for the talent that's consistently manufactured and delivered out of the Crusaders football program . . . Barrett chose Auburn over four other finalists: Florida, Notre Dame, North Carolina and Tennessee . . . The nearly last-minute visit paid dividends for Auburn by the time Wilder left campus Saturday afternoon, with the 6-foot-2, 197-pound prospect naming the Tigers one of his co-leaders . . . Who's next for the Tigers? . . . These days, it seems as if Auburn head basketball coach Bruce Pearl would follow Brooks to the ends of the earth . . . Moultry, a 6-foot-2, 225-pounder who committed to Auburn earlier this spring, is moving from safety to middle linebacker for the Mustangs this season . . . Naturally, Jackson — a 2018 receiver out of Hoover High — feels right at home on the Plains. After all, it's in his blood . . . "Gus Malzahn told me I am still coming here to Auburn as an athlete," Bishop told Dawgnation's Jeff Sentell. "But I'm going to get my shot at quarterback if I come here . . . Saturday marked his first chance to make it back to the Plains since that phone call, and after spending the afternoon at Auburn's athletics complex, Whitlow was even more impressed with what Auburn has to offer . . . "Him picking Auburn and going to play quarterback, I think he may look back at that decision years from now and be really happy with that decision getting to play quarterback under a guy like Gus Malzahn, seeing what he's done . . . Auburn's latest haul along the defensive line will bolster an already-deep group on paper. Five-star Derrick Brown was the crown jewel of the entire 2016 class — offense or defense — and five of the six signees were rated as four-star prospects or higher . . . Not signing with anyone in February after a knee injury as a senior and some academic concerns kept schools from signing him, Davis Jr. is good to go now and will join the Tigers this fall as a true freshman . . . Okeke, who ranks as the No. 45 overall prospect in the 2017 class, picked Auburn over Florida State, Georgia and a host of other high major scholarship offers . . . With his decision still in the air, Buggs took a visit to Auburn this weekend for the program's big recruiting picnic event . . . Going through daily chemo treatments, sometimes up to three hours a day, Manning said that ultimate goal of getting to Auburn was something that pushed him throughout a tough year when he wasn't sure if he would ever get to live out that dream . . . They both will make another cut for Johnson this fall, as he said he plans on taking official visits to both campuses during the season . . . A talented player who has already become a go-to play in Hoover's offense this summer in 7-on-7 tournaments with Hoover, Jackson made his first trip to the Plains as a recruit this weekend and left very impressed by what he saw from the Tigers . . .
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