Heading into the 2025 season, it was crucial that Hugh Freeze find a quarterback who possessed the charisma, confidence, and talent to lead Auburn's offense back to competing for SEC championships.
Through the Tigers' first two SEC games, results show that Jackson Arnold isn't that guy.
The highly hyped recruit out of Denton, Texas, and the No. 4 recruit in the 2023 signing class was seen as a bust after two seasons at Oklahoma, after playing behind an offensive line that couldn't block a junior high pass rusher. Unfortunately for Arnold, that protection might have gotten even worse when he arrived on the Plains, but it isn't just the five guys in front of him.