OVERHAUL: Auburn Football, Alex Golesh Part With QB Ashton Daniels, Enters Transfer Portal

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4.6 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Auburn Tigers shake up their quarterback room as Ashton Daniels and Kayin Lee plan to enter the transfer portal, signaling a bold new era under Alex Golesh. Is Auburn’s restructured payment strategy and renewed focus on culture the answer to years of underperformance?\n\nZac Blackerby and Lindsay Crosby break down Auburn’s shifting roster, exploring how Golesh’s approach is reshaping the team’s NIL spending, depth chart, and locker room culture. Key topics include Daniels’ exit, the pursuit of Deuce Knight and Byrum Brown for 2026, and how losing cornerstone DBs like Kayin Lee affects Auburn’s secondary. The conversation tackles resource allocation in the age of the transfer portal, DJ Durkin’s influence, and which remaining players are poised to step up next season. Can the Tigers maintain competitiveness amid roster turnover and a changing college football landscape? Don’t miss this incisive look at Auburn’s high-stakes offseason moves.

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0:00.0	Reports of Ash and Daniels planning to enter the transfer portal means were one step closer to knowing about Auburn's quarterback room for 2026.
0:16.0	You are Locked on Auburn, your daily podcast on the Auburn Tigers.
0:21.0	Part of the Locked on Auburn, your daily podcast on the Auburn Tigers. Part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:26.3	Yes, welcome on into Locked on Auburn, your daily Auburn Tigers podcast.
0:30.9	I'm your host, Blackerbie, and thank you so much for making Locked on Auburn,
0:34.0	your first listen every single day.
0:35.9	Lindsay Crosby of the barn
0:37.5	Auburn, Auburn.com and many other places hanging out with us. The defensive backroom got
0:42.8	a little bit of shakeup with the news of Kay and Lee reportedly planning to enter the transfer
0:47.7	portal. Also, we asked for change. We all ask for this and that's what we're starting to get. We'll touch on that as well.
0:55.8	But Ashton Daniels, I mean, anytime there's quarterback chatter, Auburn fans and just sports
1:02.1	fans in general, can't get enough of it. So Ashton Daniels reports coming out, he's expected
1:08.1	to enter the portal when it opens until January 2nd. You cannot enter the portal until January 2nd.
1:12.5	These are all reports that folks intend to enter the portal.
1:15.7	And of course, anybody that we talk about could in theory change their mind.
1:19.3	Sure.
1:19.7	Not expecting it, but they absolutely could.
1:22.4	Ashton Daniels, to me, it's interesting because he came to Auburn to be a backup.
1:31.8	And by all indications, he loved Auburn.
1:35.1	And now he is expected to enter the transfer portal.
1:38.8	There's some chatter out there and some screenshots that were shared at various places of people talking with
1:44.7	Ashton claiming that Goalish didn't really show any sort of desire or eagerness to meet
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