Report saying Horatio Fields is headed to the portal.

I'm surprised by this.

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Yes, welcome on into Lockdown, Auburn, your daily Auburn Tigers podcast. I'm your host, Zach Blackroom. Thank you so much for making Lockdown, Auburn, your first listen every single day. Ben Taylor of the Auburn Network family of station. T-host Auburn, Opelago this morning on News Talk, W.A. and I hanging out with us. I want to jump into our overall thoughts on how December is gone for the Auburn Tigers so far,

but let's jump into some news that broke after I recorded this morning show, Ben. Horatio Fields,

reports are surfacing that he is intending to enter the transfer portal once it opens up in early January.

We saw Perry Thompson be linked to similar reports a few days ago.

And so now these are guys who were kind of tied to Auburn's third wide, you know, that wide receiver three spot.

It was Horatio who was balling out.

And then he gets injured.

The Perry kind of took him to that role and actually found some production down the

course of the season.

This one surprises me more than Perry because I kind of felt like he was the guy and found a really, really strong role here,

but that scheme is gone.

Hugh Freeze is gone.

We don't know how all of these conversations are going one-on-one to Alex Golish,

excuse me, is happening with these players.

Was it tied to that?

Is Horatio Fields able to say, hey, look look I was balling out for those first few games and get there at cam Coleman there at singleton and I was

standing my own from a production standpoint is he going to take that tape to you know to the

portal to potentially get more NIL I don't know know. I'm surprised by this one, Ben, because he was such, he had such an impact and a bad

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