2025 Auburn Football Depth Chart Projections
With the transfer portal closed and Auburn past the halfway point of the offseason, let's take a stab at how the Tigers will line up this fall.
AUBURN — Today is the last day of April. Auburn football hasn’t played a game in exactly five months, and its next one is now less than four months away.
This means we’ve reached the second half of the offseason for the Tigers. By now, your roster largely is what it is. The second transfer portal window closed recently, meaning Auburn won’t have any defections — only additions — from here on out.
This second full offseason under Hugh Freeze, heading into a make-or-break Year 3 for the program and his tenure with it, has followed what should be an encouraging path: Top-10 recruiting and minimal transfer losses. Last year, Auburn ranked ninth in the SEC in the 247Sports Team Talent Composite. That spot should improve in 2025.
Granted, Auburn might have had the ninth-best roster on paper in 2024, but it didn’t produce like it. Instead, Auburn finished tied for 13th in the conference and was one of just three teams to miss a bowl game entirely.
As Freeze himself has said numerous times this offseason, the Tigers should have been better last season and they should have the talent to be more competitive this season, even if they aren’t championship contender material yet.
One of the best ways to grasp just how far Auburn’s roster has come from where it was just a couple of seasons ago is the depth chart. While Freeze doesn’t have an official depth chart and the game day process of utilizing players is a lot more fluid, there’s a reason why this format is so popular with fans across all levels of football.
Auburn’s 2025 roster isn’t perfect, and there will be clear-cut question marks at several positions heading into the fall. But the balance and depth have continued to improve, even though the win-loss records have not to this point. In terms of talent acquisition and retention, Freeze and his staff have done quite well for this era.
With Auburn basketball running to an SEC regular-season title and all the way to the Final Four, The Observer’s spring football coverage wasn’t as deep as it has been in years past. However, we were able to watch almost every minute of several practices — including A-Day at Jordan-Hare Stadium — and get access to interview sessions with a large number of players and coaches.
Auburn could add some more pieces to its roster through the portal, but the closing of the window feels like the perfect time for our first crack at a 2025 depth chart. As always, these are projections based on what we’ve seen and heard. Things can change. Things will change. However, we’ve still got a ways to go before fall camp.
Here’s our mid-offseason Auburn football depth chart. Your results may vary.
Quarterback
Jackson Arnold
Deuce Knight
Ashton Daniels