Hugh Freeze Provides Injury Update on Auburn WR Eric Singleton Jr.

Auburn Tigers wide receiver Eric Singleton Jr. has been limited in practice leading up to Auburn's opening game against the Baylor Bears.

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00:00Hugh, where are you guys at health-wise this week, particularly Eric Singleton?

00:04He looked good yesterday. I think he's close to being 100%. We'll continue to protect him a little

00:13bit and get him some conditioning, but he'll be ready to give it a go. Lord willing that nothing

00:18else happens this week, but I think everybody's at a point that's going to be able to play that

00:27hadn't been already ruled out previously, so we're pleased and thankful for that. Alex McPherson

00:34is still going through some testing, and we'll see kind of where he's at at the end of the

00:40week, but at this point, I would expect kind of everybody that has not been ruled out earlier

00:47to give it a go. Hugh, you were in here last week talking about you wanted to see more

00:53from your guys up front with pass protection, straining them more, doing that. How did

00:57they respond to that? How did you see that group do the last week in that area specifically?

01:01Yeah, they've improved. I know they're very capable of doing that, and again, I say things

01:07sometimes that are, and I don't know that everybody hears everything I say. They see a thousand

01:13different looks right now that they probably hadn't been coached very well to protect either,

01:19and so I hope that means we've got some good one-on-one pass rushers, and I think the thought

01:28behind that was I felt like we were losing too many one-on-ones in that, and Baylor certainly

01:34has guys that will test us, but I feel confident in who our guys are, and I think it helps when

01:41you get in a game and you're not playing yourself, and you would hope, but it doesn't matter who

01:47you play. If you stay in third and long, you're going to be in trouble. You're just not going to

01:52convert many of those against quality teams like Baylor, so I think what helps our offensive line

01:59more than anything is us winning first and second down and getting into third and manageable situations

02:04where we can do both run or pass. That would benefit them greatly, but they've responded well.

02:11Excited to see them have a chance to go out and prove that they're a quality SEC offensive line.