Auburn football QB Deuce Knight to enter transfer portal | Reports

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AUBURN — The Auburn football quarterback room for head coach Alex Golesh‘s first season on the Plains will be an entirely new-look group, as former five-star prospect Deuce Knight will reportedly enter the transfer portal when it opens later this week.

Auburn‘s two other scholarship passers from this past season, Ashton Daniels and Jackson Arnold, are also expected to enter.

Golesh said earlier this month that his intention with Auburn’s quarterback situation was, “not to blow the room up at all. Quite the opposite. My intent is to have everybody here that wants to be here.”

Knight was lauded, by both former head coach Hugh Freeze and interim head coach DJ Durkin, as not only a talent but someone who could be the program’s future under center. A former Notre Dame commit, Knight chose Auburn from a list of more than two dozen offers, which included 18 Power 4 programs and eight SEC schools. Knight was the highest-rated signee in Auburn’s 2025 class, and he was the 15th-highest-rated signee in program history.

However, Knight’s freshman season was rather quiet. That was expectedly so at the start, as Freeze brought in Arnold, also a former five-star prospect, to helm Auburn’s offense. Arnold was eventually benched partway through SEC play, but Freeze turned to Daniels, in a switch that didn’t save the coach’s job.

After Daniels started games against Kentucky and Vanderbilt, Durkin opted to sit him for Auburn’s late-season matchup against FCS Mercer, in an effort to preserve his redshirt. Knight started in his place and finished with 401 yards of total offense and six total touchdowns.

Deuce Knight’s stats with Auburn football

  • Career (2025): 17 for 28 (68%) passing, 259 pass yards (10.4 YPA), 2 touchdown passes; 178 rush yards, 13 carries (13.7 YPC), 4 rushing touchdowns

Adam Cole is the Auburn athletics beat writer for the Montgomery Advertiser. He can be reached via email at acole@gannett.com or on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, @colereporter.To support Adam’s work, please subscribe to the Montgomery Advertiser.

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