The Auburn Tigers land an incredibly gifted linebacker.

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Brian Smith, locked on recruiting insider and expert host of the portal hanging out

with us as we react to the Auburn Tigers landing the four-star linebacker from the

state of Florida, Adam Balagoon Ali. We've talked about him for a few weeks now. Brian, this is a guy

that you're very, very high on. You think he matches what Auburn is from a personality standpoint?

He officially commits to the Auburn Tigers. Yeah, I met Adam

a couple years ago down in South Florida at a practice. And immediately I was like, this kid's

a freshman in high school right now, get a go with sophomore year. He acted like he was 25 years old.

He was very mature elite student. So obviously coaches are attracted to that, but I was more attracted He was very mature, you eat student. So obviously,

coaches are attracted to that, but I was more attracted to something else. When you

lead your football team in tackles as a freshman in high school, it's very rare, especially

South Florida kids. He's playing against a really good comp, and he was making plays

as a freshman, which is kind of rare. Cardinal Newman, for folks who don't know what kind of program that is in South Florida,

what is it?

That's a school that's in Palm Beach County.

They play some of the private schools in the area.

They'll play Palm Beach Central, et cetera.

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