It appears Hugh Freeze has made another addition to his staff at Auburn, this time bringing aboard former Liberty and Houston staffer T.J. Randall as Auburn’s assistant director of player personnel and scouting.

Randall announced his move to Auburn in a post on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.

“Blessed beyond measure, excited to run it back,” Randall wrote in the post that featured a photo of he and Freeze at Liberty.

Auburn linebackers coach Josh Aldridge went on to issue his support of the addition.

Randall spent the last two seasons at the University of Houston, where he served as the Cougars’ assistant director of player personnel in 2022, followed by the director of scouting after being retained by first-year head coach Willie Fritz in 2023.

According to Randall’s biography on Houston’s website, as director of scouting, he focused on “player evaluations with an emphasis on the transfer portal while assisting with all offensive-related recruiting efforts.” Randall also helped scout upcoming opponents.

Randall’s emphasis on the transfer portal is of note considering Freeze’s self-confessed struggles in dealing with the transfer portal.

“I don’t think I have done very well, truthfully,” Freeze said in December when asked about how he thought he fared during the early transfer portal window. “It’s difficult.”

Prior to his time at Houston, Randall spent four seasons at Liberty — all with Freeze at the helm of the Flames’ program.

Under Freeze, Randall helped with football operations in 2018, was a recruiting graduate assistant in 2019, a recruiting assistant in 2020 and was eventually elevated to assistant director of player personnel in 2021.

News of Randall’s addition comes after the reported hiring of LSU’s Will Redmond in an executive, general manager-like role, as well as the departure of Trovon Reed, who served as Auburn’s director of football and recruiting relations. Reed went on to be added by Gus Malzahn as UCF’s cornerbacks coach.