{"id":1184188,"date":"2026-04-21T11:28:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=1184188"},"modified":"2026-04-21T11:28:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:28:42","slug":"new-auburn-qb-byrum-brown-struggled-in-weekend-spring-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/new-auburn-qb-byrum-brown-struggled-in-weekend-spring-game\/","title":{"rendered":"New Auburn QB Byrum Brown Struggled in Weekend Spring Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Auburn Tigers held their annual A-Day event this past Saturday in\u00a0Jordan-Hare Stadium, the first under\u00a0new head coach Alex Golesh\u00a0with an offense led by\u00a0new quarterback Byrum Brown.<\/p>\n<p>Despite arriving to The Plains amidst a ton of fanfare following his transfer from South Florida to continue playing for Golesh, it was not all pretty in Auburn\u2019s first look at their new QB in a Tigers uniform.<\/p>\n<p>Brown completed just 50 percent of his passes (7-for-14) for 85 yards and two interceptions, not the start either he or fans wanted to see. Notably, backup quarterback Tristan Ti\u2019a \u2014 a fellow transfer \u2014 completed 15 of his 20 attempts for close to 200 yards with a touchdown and an interception as well.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Byrum brown throws second interception of the day. Bryce Deas (LB) intercepted it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ki2eYbSxKa\">pic.twitter.com\/Ki2eYbSxKa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eli Williams (@AUBeverythingU) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AUBeverythingU\/status\/2045596124115787959?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 18, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that spring game stats should be taken with a massive grain of salt, and many Auburn fans were quick to point to Cam Newton\u2019s 2010 A-Day performance, when he went 3-for-8 for just 61 yards before going on to deliver one of the greatest individual seasons in the sport\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be honest with you, I didn\u2019t think Byrum saw it great today,\u201d Golesh said after the game while talking to media. \u201cI said it on the headset, I really didn\u2019t, where his game has come in the last 15 practices. I thought he was efficient in what he needed to do, but I don\u2019t think he saw it great in the middle of the field\u2026It\u2019s hard to move around; it\u2019s going to be quick-whistled every time. He missed the two deep balls early. He reset and he was fine, mentally he was fine, composure-wise, but I just don\u2019t think he saw it great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It does not sound like Golesh is concerned at all, but it does seem Brown clearly has some more work to do in order to be ready for the start of the season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Auburn Tigers held their annual A-Day event this past Saturday in\u00a0Jordan-Hare Stadium, the first under\u00a0new head coach Alex Golesh\u00a0with an offense led by\u00a0new quarterback <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/new-auburn-qb-byrum-brown-struggled-in-weekend-spring-game\/\" title=\"New Auburn QB Byrum Brown Struggled in Weekend Spring Game\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4874,"featured_media":1183808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,10,147],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1184188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-auburn","8":"category-tigers-plains-war-eagle","9":"category-featured-news"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/edd250906019_usf_at_uf.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4874"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1184189,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184188\/revisions\/1184189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1183808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}