GALLERY: Photos of Auburn football's defense from spring practice

Things look a little different on the defensive side of the ball heading into the 2023 season.

Lance Dawe | Mar 21, 2023

GALLERY: Photos of Auburn football's defense from spring practice /

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Auburn football is currently seven practices into spring.

With A-Day on the horizon, head coach Hugh Freeze has been clear informing the media that he and his staff are still on the look for some growth and consistency across the board - from all units.

The Tigers' 2022 defense was one of the weakest units Auburn has put out in quite some time - and with a new DC, scheme, and a plethora of new faces, there's an expectation that Auburn rebounds from their poor showing last season.

Here's a gallery of most of the faces you should expect to see contributing this fall.

Austin Ausberry — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Rod Elston and Zac Etheridge — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Cayden Bridges — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Zac Etheridge — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Zac Etheridge — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Eugene Asante, Kam Brown, DeMario Tolan, and Powell Gordon. — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Cam Riley — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Auburn linebackers Robert Woodyard, Desmond Tisdol, Eugene Asante, Kam Brown, DeMario Tolan, and Powell Gordon. — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Ron Roberts — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Wesley Steiner and Ron Roberts. — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Ron Roberts — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Wesley Steiner — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Eugene Asante, Kam Brown, DeMario Tolan, and Powell Gordon. — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Auburn football practice — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Hayden Brice — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Elijah McAllister — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Wesley Steiner — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Austin Ausberry — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Rod Elston — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Cam Riley — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Donovan Kaufman — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Cam Riley — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Godwin Owolabi and Jayson Jones — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Austin Keys — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Donovan Kaufman — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Austin Keys — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Elijah McAllister — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Wilky Denaud, Tobechi Okoli, Jeffrey M'Ba, Enyce Sledge, and Godwin Owolabi. — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Cayden Bridges — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Wesley Steiner — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Auburn football practice — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Austin Keys — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Austin Keys — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Marcus Harris — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Auburn football practice — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Auburn football practice — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Auburn football practice — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Cam Riley and Austin Keys — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Donovan Kaufman — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Mosiah Nasili-Kite and Garrison Walker — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Wesley Steiner — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Mosiah Nasili-Kite — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Cam Riley — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Caleb Wooden — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Donovan Kaufman and Marquise Gilbert — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Enyce Sledge and Godwin Owolabi — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Craig McDonald — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Zion Puckett — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Caleb Wooden — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

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Austin Ausberry and Marquise Gilbert — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Caleb Wooden — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

DeMario Tolan, Cam Riley, Austin Keys, and Jake Levant. — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Lawrence Johnson — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Auburn football practice — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Kam Brown, Wesley Steiner, Powell Gordon, Robert Woodyard Jr, DeMario Tolan, and Cam Riley. — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Donovan Kaufman — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Craig McDonald — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

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Robert Woodyard and Kam Brown — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Zion Puckett — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Donovan Kaufman — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Caleb Wooden — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Craig McDonald — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Enyce Sledge — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Justin Rogers and Joe Frazier Jr — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Justin Rogers — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Marcus Harris and Tobechi Okoli — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Marcus Harris — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Robert Woodyard — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Eugene Asante — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Stephen Johnson, Jayson Jones, Godwin Owolabi — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Jayson Jones, Stephen Johnson — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Marcus Harris — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Jeffrey M'Ba — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Auburn football — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Kameron Brown — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Jake Levant — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Jayson Jones — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Marcus Harris — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Robert Woodyard, Wesley Steiner — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Lawrence Johnson, Enyce Sledge — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Stephen Johnson — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Austin Keys — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Stephen Jackson — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Auburn football linebackers Dylan Brook, Kam Brown, and Cam Riley — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Marcus Harris — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Godwin Owolabi — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Brenton Williams — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Hayden Brice — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Godwin Owolabi — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Stephen Johnson — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Tobechi Okoli — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Elijah McAllister — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Marcus Harris — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Mosiah Nasili-Kite — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Lawrence Johnson — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Godwin Owolabi — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Tobechi Okoli — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Garrison Walker — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Mosiah Nasili-Kite — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Tobechi Okoli — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Justin Rogers — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Elijah McAllister — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Justin Rogers — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Stephen Johnson — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Garrison Walker and Goodwin Owolabi — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Godwin Owolabi — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Marcus Harris — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Joe Frazier Jr. — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Justin Rogers, Garrison Walker — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Justin Rogers — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Lawrence Johnson — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Tobechi Okoli — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Mosiah Nasili-Kite — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Tobechi Okoli — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Lawrence Johnson, Jayson Jones, Wikly Denaud, Justin Rogers — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Joe Frazier Jr — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Jayson Jones — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Caleb Wooden — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Cayden Bridges — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Zac Etheridge — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Keldric Faulk — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Austin Keys and Keionte Scott — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Jaylin Simpson — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Jayson Jones — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Marquis Burks, Tobechi Okoli — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

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Austin Keys — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Robert Woodyard — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Wesley Steiner — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Auburn linebackers Eugene Asante, Kam Brown, and DeMario Tolan. — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Austin Perryman/Auburn Athletics

Wesley Steiner and Robert Woodyard — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Wesley Steiner — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Keionte Scott — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Keionte Scott — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Jaylin Simpson — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Auburn defensive coordinator Ron Roberts. — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Jaylin Simpson at practice. — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Nehemiah Pritchett — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Robert Woodyard — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

Donovan Kaufman and Marquise Gilbert — Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

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Published Mar 21, 2023

Lance Dawe

College football enthusiast. Wing connoisseur. Editor and contributor for @TheAuburnDaily. Host of @LockedonUK.