Inside the Auburn defensive line’s meeting room is a wall with a handful of opposing quarterbacks’ faces.

That wall is known as the boneyard to those around the Tigers’ football program.

If the Auburn defensive line sacks a quarterback four times or more in one game, said quarterback goes into the boneyard.

Prior to Saturday night, the boneyard was three quarterbacks strong as the Tigers sacked UMass quarterback Taisun Phommachanh four times in Game 1, Ole Miss quarterback Jaxson Dart four times in Game 7 and Vanderbilt’s Ken Seals five times in Game 9.

“I always joke with them: ‘Are we going boneyard today?’,” said Auburn defensive back Keionte Scott after Saturday’s 48-10 win at Arkansas.

When Scott asked Auburn defensive line coach Jeremy Garrett if the Tigers added another quarterback to the boneyard late in Saturday’s game against Arkansas, Garrett was quick to respond.

“He’s been in the boneyard three quarters ago,” Scott said, mirroring what Garrett told him.

Arkansas quarterback KJ Jefferson was sacked five times Saturday. And though he didn’t exactly find himself in the boneyard in just one quarter like Scott claims Garrett said, he had become Auburn’s fourth “boneyard quarterback” of the season by halftime.

It was junior Appalachian State transfer Jalen McLeod who led Auburn’s charge against Arkansas having tallied a season-high nine tackles, four tackles for a loss and three sacks.

“It was too much fun — a little too much fun,” McLeod said. “You know, as an edge rusher and you get three sacks, it’s hard to come out with one. But you get three? It’s good.”

And while the Razorbacks have struggled keeping Jefferson upright all season as they’ve given up 36 total sacks – a mark that ranks third from the bottom in the SEC – it’s still impressive anytime a team can drop him to the turf.

At 6-foot-3 and an eyelash under 250 pounds, Jefferson’s got a lot to him.

“You saw how tough it was,” McLeod said when asked about tackling Jefferson. “He’s what? 250? It was tough, it was tough. But we was hungry. We was hungry, so it wasn’t no thing. Just football.”

Auburn linebacker Eugene Asante and defensive lineman Marcus Harris were two others who helped drop Jefferson on Saturday afternoon, tallying half a sack and 1.5 sacks, respectively.

“I thought they made KJ feel really uncomfortable from the start of the game and really crushed the pocket,” said Auburn head coach Hugh Freeze. “You know he’s going to break a few out of there. He’s done it against everybody. I thought our defense played really, really, really good.”

Jefferson finished the afternoon 10-for-16 through the air for 116 yards and added just 50 yards on the ground on 15 attempts – giving him an average of just 3.3 yards per carry.

Auburn kept Jefferson quiet after last week’s game at Florida that saw him pass for 255 yards and two touchdowns, in addition to 92 yards on the ground, a 5.4 yards per carry average and a rushing touchdown.

“He’s a strong quarterback. So we understand that we’ve got to crush the pocket,” Asante said after the game. “We’ve got to corral him inside and let our pass rushers be pass rushers. Let Jalen do his thing. When my number’s called, I’ve got to go do my thing. We did it today, and the pass rush is coming alive. I’m telling you.”

Asante is right — the pass rush is coming alive. And it has been for the past month.

In Auburn’s last four games against Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Vanderbilt and Arkansas, the Tigers have tallied 14 sacks – two more than they combined for in their first six games of the season.

Meanwhile, Auburn has tallied 30 tackles for a loss in the last four games – which is just two less than what they did in their first six games of the season. Though it’s worth noting Auburn’s 32 tackles for a loss in the front half of the season is a number that’s buoyed by a combined 14 TFLs against UMass and Samford.

“We got 10x better. You clearly see it – the last three games, four games, actually, we’ve been hitting home,” McLeod said of Auburn’s pass rush. “We’re just having fun. We know that it starts in the trenches. Wo we win? They can’t get the ball off and the DBs are relaxing. So it really comes down to us. And we knew that. We figured it out.”

When Auburn’s defensive line and defensive backs are playing in tandem like they were on Saturday, Scott says they call it “peanut butter and jelly.”

So to use Auburn’s jargon: The Tigers put on a peanut butter and jelly performance against Arkansas on Saturday while also putting KJ Jefferson into the boneyard.

And McLeod claims he and his guys along the defensive front are just getting started.

“You know how a snowball goes down a mountain? It just keep growing,” McLeod said. “And that’s what we’re going to keep doing. First to New Mexico, then to Bama.”