September 18, 2024

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2023: Transfer from Michigan State who earned the starting job at quarterback …162-265 passing for the season for 1,755 yards with 16 TD and 10 INT … 425 yards rushing (10th best by an Auburn QB) … team captain … 10-17 passing for 141 yards vs. UMass with a 29-yard TD pass to Jay Fair … TD passes to Fair and the gamewinner to Rivaldo Fairweather at Cal … vs. Samford, career-best 123 yards rushing with 2 TD; 282 yards passing (24-32) with 1 TD; the first 100/200 performance by an Auburn QB since Nick Marshall vs. Mississippi State in 2014 … rushed for 92 yards vs. Georgia, with a career-long gain of 61 … 12-23 passing at LSU for 102 yards … 100 yards passing with an 8-yard TD to Fairweather vs. Ole Miss … 3 TD passes against Mississippi State, going 20-26 (76.9) for 230 yards … 17-27 at Vanderbilt for 194 yards and 2 TD passes to Fairweather and Jeremiah Cobb … rushed for 88 yards and a score at Arkansas and passed for 3 TD (12-20, 163 yds) … 15-19 passing vs. New Mexico State for 148 yards with a 32-yard TD to Fairweather … rushed for 57 yards and 5-16 passing against Alabama … 13-27 passing in the Music City Bowl with a TD pass to Brandon Frazier

Before Auburn: Graduate transfer quarterback from Michigan State … three-year letterwinner for the Spartans; 2021 and 2022 team captain … 49 career TD passes on 524-860 (.609) passing for 6,494 yards in 29 career games (223.9 ypg), including 26 career starts (16-10 record) . . . ranks among Michigan State’s career leaders in passing touchdowns (fourth with 49), completion percentage (fifth at .609), passing yards (sixth with 6,494), pass completions (sixth with 524), pass attempts (sixth with 860) and passing efficiency (eighth with 137.6 rating) . . . five career games with 300-plus yards passing . . .  multiple TDs thrown in 13 games . . . threw for three or more TDs in seven career games along with four TDs in three games . . . also scored five rushing touchdowns (one in 2020; four in 2021; one in 2022) . . . three-time Academic All-Big Ten selection . . . redshirted 2019 season

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