In an interview with The Next Round Live, Auburn Tigers head coach Hugh Freeze outlined the blueprint for transfer quarterback Jackson Arnold’s success in Year 1 with the Tigers.
Signing with the Oklahoma Sooners as a five-star and the No. 8 player in the 2023 class, according to 247Sports’ rankings, Arnold had a rather lackluster year in his first year at the helm of the Sooners’ offense as he was benched just four games in – ahead of the Sooners’ matchup with Auburn – for freshman Michael Hawkins. Jr.
As one of the first coaches to reach out to Arnold when entering the transfer portal this spring, Freeze has expressed that Arnold is the Tigers’ number one guy and says that regaining some of the confidence and swagger that made him a 2022 National Gatorade Player of the Year out of Guyer High School in Texas is just what he needs to get back to that level in 2025.
“I think the whole deal is confidence. I think if he can regain some of that swagger and confidence that a Gatorade Player of the Year has, he’s got all the tools… this spring I witnessed that,” Freeze said in the interview…