Oh, man.

Auburn seems in it for an elite edge defender.

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I'm Zach Blackerby.

Brian Smith joining me.

He is the host of the portal, Lockdowns, Recruiting and NIL show.

I want to talk to you about the offensive line coming together with a lot of transfer guys and maybe a few freshmen.

We'll see, as well as a bunch of key elite targets that are spending time here on the planes.

Let's lead things off with Garor, Jabarius Garor, formerly committed to Alabama, elite edge defender. He goes by chicken. His name is chicken. I was waiting for you. That's what everybody calls. We call him chicken. On his name tag at practice yesterday, it said chicken on it. I'm like, okay, great. His name's chicken. That's awesome. So chicken Gor, an elite guy, right? Like, you can't miss them. You can't miss them. And even

if you know nothing about ball and you see him watching practice over there, you're like,

that's an elite player. A lot of colleges are going to want that guy.

Yeah. Sounds like he was impressed with, with Auburn. Sounds like he was impressed with Auburn.

Sounds like he was impressed with their practice,

just kind of reading his interviews at various, various places.

Love the energy.

Loves coach Hutzler, it was the D.C. at Mississippi State last year,

like experience coaching staff, check a lot of the boxes. But. at Mississippi State last year, like experience coaching staff,

checking a lot of the boxes. But this is an elite player, Brian Smith. Yes, he is. He's

Mobile Kid, number one city in the country per capita to the NFL. It's not shocking. And that's

an area we've talked about many times. Auburn has to do better in if they want to get up over the hump, was committed to Bama. Their NIL offer is not where he wants it to be. He's decommitted. Now it's a plethora of schools going after an A&M, Florida State, Auburn, and the rest of the free world. Auburn's one of the first to get him on campus since his decommitment.

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