Five-star 2023 safety has Auburn in top four schools

A highly touted recruit has put Auburn in his final four schools.

Tony Mitchell, a 2023 recruit out of Alabaster, Alabama, included the Tigers in his final list of teams that also includes Alabama, Texas A&M and Georgia. Although Auburn is among the final teams, it looks like it will be an uphill battle to land the five-star product for coach Bryan Harsin and his staff.

Mitchell has been projected by three different 247Sports experts to Auburn’s eternal rival in the Alabama Crimson Tide. Although Mitchell is scheduled for a visit to the Plains in late October, it is still seeming unlikely that the Tigers will be able to land him unless they push much harder for his recruitment in the coming months.

Auburn could certainly use the help. The Tigers have offered 15 safeties for the 2023 class with only one recruit in four-star prospect Terrance Love. Great defensive backs are a commodity teams can never have enough of in college football, so it will be interesting to see what Harsin and his staff do with their recruiting efforts for Mitchell as time passes.

Mitchell has no timetable for his decision at the moment, but his visit to Auburn on October 28 is currently the only official visit remaining that he currently has scheduled.

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