Before Auburn stepped foot on the practice field at the new Woltosz Football Performance Center on Monday afternoon for its first day of practice under Hugh Freeze, the Tigers’ new head coach made one thing abundantly clear: Day 1 of spring meant a clean slate for everyone across the roster.

There were no preconceived notions with the new coaching staff, no established pecking order, either. The ensuing six weeks were going to be about development and evaluation, so when the Tigers met in the team meeting room before their first day of practice, Freeze’s message was clear.

“I mean this: There is no depth chart,” Freeze said.

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Auburn’s first-year coach has no intentions of keeping a real-time depth chart over the course of the team’s 15 spring practices. Things will start to sort themselves out after spring, when coaches have a full complement of practices and scrimmages to fully evaluate each position.

“We won’t narrow down the reps in spring,” Freeze said. “We will in fall. We have to. But in spring, we won’t.”

And since there’s no evolving depth chart over the next six weeks, Freeze intends to distribute reps as evenly as possible throughout the roster — including at quarterback, where Robby Ashford, T.J. Finley and Holden Geriner are trying to position themselves on the inside track for the starting job this fall.

That was apparent on Day 1, when Auburn “two-spotted” the quarterback position to maximize reps for each player. During the 20-minute window that was open to the media on Monday afternoon, Auburn had the quarterbacks working in pairs and throwing split routes to wide receiver tandems. Ashford and Finley were paired together for one set of reps, while Geriner was paired with walk-on Sawyer Pate.

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“At some point, all three are going to have to be the guy to lead the football team — and lead not only on the field, but off the field, in the locker room, decision making, accuracy, taking care of the ball; all of those things,” Freeze said. “To this point, the thing I’ve really liked is, man, if the meeting is at 2:30, they’re there at 2:15 saying, ‘Can we start early? Can we go?’ They’re wanting to learn.”

While there is no firm depth chart being tracked this spring, Day 1 of practice still offered a familiar hierarchy at several positions. Established veterans on offense and defense repped in their expected groupings — like cornerbacks Nehemiah Pritchett and D.J. James, wide receivers Ja’Varrius Johnson and Koy Moore, and running back Jarquez Hunter, just to name a few—while some key new additions to the roster also found themselves in the mix for first-team rotations. That included the likes of transfer offensive linemen Dillon Wade, Gunner Britton and Avery Jones, as well as wide receiver transfer Nick Mardner, among others.

However, Freeze cautioned not to read too much into those personnel groupings, especially this early into the spring.

“We’re going to rotate some people,” Freeze said. “…I don’t care what group you trot out with on the field right now; I don’t have in my mind that this is a first-team, a second-team, a third-team guy. You’re going to get the reps, and we’re going to rotate different people in with this group that runs out there and grade every single rep of it and kind of figure out where we are after spring.

“But (I) really just believe that everybody’s going to get equal reps in the spring and develop some depth, at least, before we decide where everybody is in the pecking order of depth charts.”

Tom Green is an Auburn beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Tomas_Verde.