Alex Golesh offers critique of Byrum Brown’s spring game performance
By David Wasson
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The new-look Auburn football team completed its spring workouts Saturday with the annual A-Day scrimmage – which included Tigers fans getting their first glimpse of presumptive QB1 Byrum Brown.
The former USF standout, who transferred to Auburn to join his former coach Alex Golesh, wasn’t exactly sharp – going just 7-of-14 for 85 yards with two interceptions. In fact, Brown was outshined by Oregon State transfer Tristan Ti’a, who finished 15-of-20 for 179 yards with a touchdown pass and an interception.
“I didn’t think Byrum saw it great today,” Golesh said to reporters after the workout at Jordan-Hare Stadium. “Where his game has come in the last 15 practices, he was efficient in what he had to do, but he didn’t see it great today… Mentally, he was fine. Composure, he was fine. Didn’t see it well.”
Brown passed for 3,158 yards and 28 touchdowns last season for USF and transferred from Tampa to Auburn following a Bulls tenure that included 7,690 passing yards, 2,265 rushing yards and 92 total touchdowns.
Auburn fired Hugh Freeze in midseason en route to a 5-7 record before hiring Golesh. The Tigers open the 2026 season with four straight home games – beginning Sept. 5 with Baylor. The SEC slate starts Sept. 19 at home vs. Florida.
An APSE national award-winning writer and editor, David Wasson has almost four decades of experience in the print journalism business in Florida and Alabama. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and several national magazines and websites. His Twitter handle: @JustDWasson.
