Hugh Freeze and Auburn’s recruiting tear continues with commitment of 2025 4-star tight end

Hugh Freeze and Auburn’s recruiting tear continues with commitment of 2025 4-star tight end

Hugh Freeze and the Auburn Tigers are winning more than just football games.

On a three-game win streak, Freeze and the Tigers have set the recruiting trail ablaze in the past three days.

First Auburn was the choice destination of the No. 1 safety out of the junior college ranks as Laquan Robinson committed to the Tigers on Friday. Then Auburn flipped 4-star edge rusher Jamonta Waller away from the Florida Gators after Saturday’s dominating win at Arkansas.

And the ball kept rolling into Sunday afternoon as Ryan Ghea, a 4-star tight end out of Alpharetta, Ga., announced his commitment to Freeze and the Tigers.

Ghea, who ranks as the 12th-best tight end in the country according to 247Sports, hauled in 41 offers before pledging to Auburn Sunday. Some of those offers came from some of the top programs in the country like Florida State, Michigan and Ohio State.

But it was Auburn that impressed Ghea the most.

Ghea first visited The Plains in late January of this year as he participated in Auburn’s Junior Day. And he’s since returned three — twice in the spring and most recently on Nov. 7, when Ghea dropped by during Auburn’s practice.

With Ghea’s commitment, the Tigers have secured their first tight end commit under Freeze. Ghea also becomes Auburn’s sixth commit in Freeze’s early-developing 2025 recruiting class, which ranked as the sixth-best class in the country prior to Ghea’s announcement on Sunday.