Auburn hires new assistant GM away from SEC rival, according to report
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Auburn stabilized its personnel and recruiting department a little over a month before the 2025 season begins, and it’s reportedly come at the expense of another SEC team.
FootballScoop reported on Tuesday that Auburn has completed a deal with Arkansas’s Jovon Hubbard to be the Tigers’s new assistant general manager. Auburn has signed Hubbard to a contract, according to FootballScoop. He is leaving his role at Arkansas as director of football personnel to join Auburn, where the pressure to produce is at an all-time high as Hugh Freeze enters his 3rd season as head coach.
Freeze followed a 6-7 season in his first year on the Plains in 2023 with an even-worse 5-7 record last year. Freeze is feeling the heat going into 2025, and Auburn is hoping the reported hiring of Hubbard can help steer things in the right direction immediately.
Hubbard would be working at Auburn under Will Redmond, a former FootballScoop Player Personnel Director of the Year.
Auburn is not only adding a talent like Hubbard to its front office staff, it’s giving its much-maligned head coach some familiarity to work with. Freeze and Hubbard worked together for 3 seasons when the former was the head coach at Liberty from 2019 to 2022. The Tigers are hoping that familiarity breeds success in 2025 on the Plains.
Hubbard also previously worked in NFL internship programs with the Green Bay Packers and Atlanta Falcons. He had spent the past 2 years at Arkansas.
Now, it appears he’ll be heading from Fayetteville to the Plains.
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.
