Breaking down Auburn's linebacker room going into the 2024 season
Certain Auburn position groups entered fall camp with questions regarding the pecking order. Inside linebacker wasn’t one of them.
“You know him as a player when you’re on another team and you see him running around making plays. You know the player, now you know the person,” Auburn defensive coordinator and linebackers coach DJ Durkin told reporters during fall camp. “As great a player as he is, he’s a better person.” “I just want to be somebody that the coaches can say, ‘Man, Eugene is a dependable person and we trust in him.’ So for me, in totality for the year, I want to do something special,” Asante said during fall camp.
When healthy, Keys is another staple of Auburn’s defense. He had 30 tackles, two sacks and a forced fumble in 2023 while only playing in eight games due to a thumb injury.Competing for playing time behind Asante, Keys and Mausi Jr. is freshman Demarcus Riddick and redshirt sophomore Robert Woodyard Jr.
A four-sport athlete in high school competing in football, basketball, baseball and track and field, Riddick was a top five linebacker recruit in the country. Woodyard, a redshirt sophomore, is going into his third season at Auburn and Durkin praised his improvement going into the 2024 season.
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