Despite not arriving at Auburn until the summer, Payton Thorne beat out Robby Ashford to start for Auburn.
Auburn quarterback Payton Thorne drops back to pass during practice Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023 in Auburn, Ala. Payton Thorne had a team to win over when he arrived to Auburn over the summer. So he showed up with a collection of photos of his teammates. He wanted to make sure he learned their names.
He hasn’t figured all those names out yet. He’s still learning to pronounce running back Brian Battie’s name — it’s Bat-tee, for the record. But this is his way of becoming a leader quickly on a team he didn’t know. Freeze said throughout the summer he hoped to narrow down his quarterback battle by the fifth practice of fall camp which closely led into the team’s first scrimmage. By that point, Freeze hadn’t made up his mind in full, but he indicated to Thorne he led the battle to see how he would react in the scrimmage.
There was no apparent separation in the quarterback battle until the Tuesday after the scrimmage when reporters saw Thorne and Ashford rotating with the first-team offensive line and Geriner working on the other side of the field.“It was good to hear that from Coach and have that conversation with him,” Thorne said. “To hear that and kind of get past the whole competition of everything.
“It’s fun for me to play for an offensive head coach and to have a lot of people devoted to quarterback and quarterback development and all that stuff,” Thorne said. “It just wasn’t the staple of the offense I was in. Just getting used to it, talking to Coach, trying to learn the best I can what he wants and what he’s looking for and what he’s had success with in the past. There’s differences, some similarities. I’m just trying to go play well.
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