When Auburn head coach Hugh Freeze arrived to Dallas for SEC Media Days on Thursday, he did so with a luxury he didn’t have during last year’s event: less question marks in regards to the offensive line room.

“I think we should be good there,” Freeze said when asked about the offensive front during a brief media availability with local reporters.

Freeze admits the offensive line didn’t look its best in April’s A-Day spring game, though Auburn’s defense or the lack of game planning for an inner-team scrimmage could be somewhat to blame for the less-than-stellar showing in April.

After playing in just one game last season and being merely a reserve piece in his first four seasons at Auburn, Jeremiah Wright has seemingly flipped the switch this offseason.

And it couldn’t have come at a better time considering the Tigers graduated a trio of starters from last season in Gunner Britton, Kam Stutt and Avery Jones.

“I think Jeremiah Wright has come lightyears from when we arrived,” Freeze said of Wright, who lined up as Auburn’s starting right guard during the spring game.

Freeze’s comments about Wright were a continuation of what Auburn offensive line coach Jake Thornton said back in the spring.

“He’s doing a really good job. Big, physical presence,” Thornton said of Wright. “He’s really transformed his body. He’s got a lot of good weight on him right now so certainly excited about him.”

Meanwhile, Connor Lew is expected to be another guy the Tigers can lean on along the offensive front.

Albeit just a sophomore, Lew enters the 2024 season with five starts under his belt after being thrown into the fire midway through the 2023 season due to an injury to Avery Jones.

During that stretch, Freeze saw all he needed to see.

“Connor Lew, I think, is elite,” Freeze told reporters, followed saying he thought Lew was an “NFL center” at the podium.

Also returning along Auburn’s offensive line is senior Dillon Wade, who transferred in from Tulsa ahead of the 2023 season and started at left tackle in all but one game.

Freeze says the Tigers will have a greater opportunity to move Wade both inside and out, while junior Tate Johnson is expected to be another key rotational piece this fall, as is Izavion ‘Too Tall’ Miller.

Auburn dipped into the transfer portal and nabbed an SEC-experienced addition in Mississippi State transfer Percy Lewis, who lined up at left tackle during April’s spring game.

“Percy is going to have to play well,” Freeze said of Lewis, who earned rave reviews from his former teammates earlier in the week.

“We’re excited and we’ve got some good young ones too,” Freeze said of the offensive line as a whole.

Of Auburn’s 16 scholarship offensive linemen, nine are underclassmen, including a pair of true freshmen in DeAndre Carter and Favour Edwin.

“How well will they play in Year 1? It’s very hard for me to predict that,” Freeze said.

“But I think we should be solid up front.”