After signing four wide receivers a year ago, including three ranked in the ESPN 300, the position wasn’t a priority for Auburn in its 2017 class.
The staff addressed other needs like linebacker and only signed two wide receivers, Noah Igbinoghene and JaTarvious Whitlow. Neither was ranked in the ESPN 300. One didn’t have an offer until signing day. And the other has a name that Auburn coach Gus Malzahn doesn’t even know how to pronounce.
“I’m just going to start calling him ‘Iggy,’” Malzahn said on signing day.
Well, “Iggy” might not be headlining the class like fellow wide receivers Nate Craig-Myers and Kyle Davis did the year before, but he’s also not a name to overlook.