Class Autopsy

Auburn 2023 — what happened to every signee.

Auburn’s 2023 class brought in 19 signees. 3 reached the NFL, 1 of them from a different school.

19
signees, National Signing Day 2023
3
reached the NFL, 1 from elsewhere.

The journey stack

One row per signee, ranked by signing-day national rank. Each chit is a stop; the line between them is a transfer. Open a row for the season-by-season record.

Keldric Faulk
No.75 national · DL
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R1 · #31Tennessee
Auburn — 2023: 42.0, 2024: 85.0, 2025: 45.0
Tennessee · 2026 draft — No. 31 overall, round 1.
Kayin Lee
No.147 national · CB
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StayedNever transferred
Auburn — 2023: 35.0, 2024: 65.0, 2025: 44.0
Jeremiah Cobb
No.168 national · RB
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StayedNever transferred
Auburn — 2023: 38.0, 2024: 33.0, 2025: 67.0
DJ Reed
No.189 national · DL
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StayedNever transferred
Auburn — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored, 2025: 31.0
Sylvester Smith
No.233 national · S
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StayedNever transferred
Auburn — 2023: 11.0, 2024: 35.0, 2025: 28.0
Terrance Love
No.281 national · S
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1 transferColorado
Auburn — 2023: 13.0, 2024: 0.0
Colorado — 2025: unscored
Tyler Scott
No.330 national · CB
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StayedNever transferred
Auburn — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored, 2025: unscored
Colton Hood
No.374 national · CB
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R2 · #37New York
Auburn — 2023: 20.0
Colorado — 2024: 64.0
Tennessee — 2025: 67.0
New York · 2026 draft — No. 37 overall, round 2.
Wilky Denaud
No.418 national · DL
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1 transferFlorida Atlantic
Auburn — 2023: unscored
Florida Atlantic — 2024: 0.0, 2025: 28.0
Connor Lew
No.449 national · IOL
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R4 · #128Cincinnati
Auburn — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored, 2025: unscored
Cincinnati · 2026 draft — No. 128 overall, round 4.
Clay Wedin
No.467 national · IOL
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StayedNever transferred
Auburn — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored, 2025: unscored
Daquayvious Sorey
No.472 national · WR
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StayedNever transferred
Auburn — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored, 2025: unscored
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The receipts

No recruiting service wrote a word here. The national rank was the promise; what happened next is the whole story.

Drafted — elsewhere

“The No. 374 player in America.”

signed Auburn → drafted from elsewhere

Drafted No. 37 overall, round 2 — by a program that never signed him.

Never made the league

“The No. 147 player in America.”

signed Auburn → never drafted

Peak grade of 65 on our 0–100 scale.

The report card

Star power and cohesion are graded against all 297 qualifying classes, 2021–2023. NFL production and on-field value are graded against just the 107 other 2023 classes — a 2023 signee simply hasn’t had as many draft-eligible years as a 2021 signee, so those two dimensions compare like-for-like instead of penalizing recency. Overall GPA still ranks across all 297.

C
Star power
17 recruiting points
B
Cohesion
68% never transferred
A
NFL production
3 drafted, vs. 2023 peers
B
On-field value
mean peak grade 37.3, vs. 2023 peers

The class the draft ignored

NFL production, 2023 signing classes in Auburn’s conference

Auburn’s 3 draft picks against every other qualifying class its conference signed the same year.

Auburn
drafted: 100%
3
drafted: 100%
3
drafted: 67%remaining: 33%
2
drafted: 33%remaining: 67%
1
drafted: 33%remaining: 67%
1
remaining: 100%
0
remaining: 100%
0
remaining: 100%
0
remaining: 100%
0
remaining: 100%
0
Source CFB Index · player_recruiting_profiles + player_nfl_draft

The fine print

Other ways to read the same class.

Star-weighted retention
70%
Of the class’s combined star rating, this much stuck around.
Fed the conference
0
Transfers that landed at another program in Auburn’s current conference.
Dropped a level
0
Signees whose portal move landed below FBS.
The quiet middle
5
Never transferred, never drafted, 3-star or below. The class nobody writes about.