BIG DEAL: Xavier Atkins Is BACK, HUGE Win For Alex Golesh

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🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Xavier Atkins has made the announcement that he is coming back to the Auburn Tigers. This is a BIG deal for Alex Golesh. On this reaction edition of Locked On Auburn, Zac Blackerby discusses this win and its impact for Auburn.

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0:00.0	Yes. Yes. Hey, uh, Xavier Atkins is coming back.
0:10.2	You are locked on Auburn, your daily podcast on the Auburn Tigers.
0:16.5	Part of the Locked on podcast Network, your team every day.
0:21.9	Yes, welcome on in to Lockdown Auburn, your daily Auburn Tigers podcast.
0:26.6	I'm your host, Zach Blackerby, and thank you so much for making Lockdown,
0:29.5	Auburn, your first or your second or I think this is our third show that's up today.
0:33.6	Thank you so much.
0:34.9	Really, really appreciate it.
0:35.7	I'm Zach Blackerbie. And look,
0:37.9	the biggest news since Alex Gullish has been hired. Yeah, I'm comfortable saying that.
0:45.2	Xavier Atkins coming back to Auburn with the social post graphics saying, hey, let's run it back.
0:54.9	This is huge. This is huge. One, I think let's run it back. This is huge.
0:56.4	This is huge.
0:57.6	One, I think it's going to have an impact on the rest of the roster, a trickle-down
1:02.3	effect.
1:02.8	And I'll touch on that in a moment.
1:04.8	But as far as what it means for Xavier Atkins and this football team.
1:16.1	This is a guy who was one of the best defensive players in college football last year and one of the best defensive college football players coming back for another season.
1:21.0	And also just a great story, right?
1:23.4	This is a guy who was buried on the LSU depth chart, enter the portal, and was a guy, to
1:29.3	be frank, we were saying, okay, if he can put it all together, he can make an impact.
1:33.1	And boy, did he put it all together.
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