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Auburn’s quarterback room for 2025 continued to be in flux on Saturday, as freshman Walker White is heading to the transfer portal, a source told ESPN.
The Tigers are apparently losing White only hours after gaining a quarterback, with Auburn confirming that former Oklahoma quarterback Jackson Arnold was heading to the Plains after transferring. Arnold is the highest-ranked quarterback signee in Auburn history and will be key for the Tigers next fall, especially with White reportedly heading elsewhere.
White was a 4-star recruit in the 2024 class out of Little Rock, Ark., according to the 247Sports Composing Rankings. He was the 107th-ranked player in the class, the 8th-ranked quarterback and the 3rd-ranked player out of the state of Arkansas.
He only appeared in 1 game in his lone season at Auburn, getting mop-up duty in a blowout victory over Louisiana-Monroe on Nov. 16. White went 2-for-5 passing for 18 yards and had 4 carries for 18 yards in that game, a 48-14 victory. But that was it for White, who was stuck behind Payton Thorne this season, and with Arnold heading to Auburn to play for Hugh Freeze in 2025 who knows how much time White would’ve gotten.
So, in a matter of hours on Saturday, Auburn gained a potential impact quarterback to its room for 2025 and has now apparently lost one.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
