Wednesday marked an important time in the offseason for the Auburn Tigers and Head Coach Alex Golesh, as the team not only held their second and final scrimmage of preseason camp, but it marked the halfway point of their final week of camp as well.
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The next big moment now—game day against the Baylor Bears on Sept. 5 in Atlanta, a game where the Tigers will be eager to get a win.
Auburn Undercover’s top 20 impact players watch list continues on in its day-by-day showing of a player that the staff believes will be a difference maker for Auburn in 2026.
As a disclaimer, the poll was tabulated by rankings sent in from four people on the Auburn Undercover staff—Tyler Raley, Ryan Bartow, Caleb Jones and Jay Douglas. The rankings each person sent in were averaged, with the lowest score going at the top of the list.
Coming in at No. 17, like Wednesday’s athlete, is another young player who has a high ceiling to make things happen. In a deep room though, AnQuon Fegans will need to go the extra mile to separate himself as a sophomore in DJ Durkin’s defense.
General information:
Year: Sophomore
Position: Safety
Height: 6-foot
Weight: 200 pounds
Hometown: Alabaster, Alabama
Performance in 2025:
In his true freshman season, Fegans got a chance to appear in all 12 football games for the Tigers and got on the stat sheet in nearly all of them.
The product of Alabaster recorded 24 total tackles on the year while also securing one pass breakup and one interception. The only game he did not record a stat in was in the Iron Bowl loss to Alabama.
Fegans’ most productive game of the year from a tackles perspective came in a 45-38 road loss to the Vanderbilt Commodores, when he racked up five tackles in Nashville. Fegans only had three games throughout the year where he did not put up multiple tackles—those being against Baylor, Missouri and Arkansas.
The 24 tackles that Fegans secured placed him 12th on the Auburn defense and fourth among the safety room behind Kaleb Harris, Sylvester Smith-Reed and Jahquez Robinson.
He will look to improve on that as he is set to gain some considerable playing time in 2026.
Preseason camp intel:
On report day on the eve of preseason camp beginning, Golesh spent some of his time in his press conference providing an injury update heading into the action.
Fegans was on that injury report, being a player that was rehabbing from a minor injury and was considered day-to-day. As a result, the safety spent much of the first half of camp in individual drills away from the rest of the team, working back slowly, but surely.
During the first scrimmage the team held on Friday of last week, Golesh reported that they decided to hold Fegans that day, still attempting to work back carefully.
“(Fegans) worked out, ran, went through pregame warmups,” Golesh said. “We were just really, really careful with him.”
Fegans finally got to go in the Wednesday scrimmage after being limited, marking a full return to action just in time for the mock game week that Auburn will hold next week.
Along with Champ Anthony and Smith-Reed, Fegans has been touted for the versatility that he brings to a deep secondary, with Golesh saying it will continue to help the group as DJ Durkin helps to figure out who the best guys will be to start and get considerable playing time.
Fegans is certainly one to be in consideration for that grouping with all that he provides, but with a deep level of competition and a lot of talent in the safety room specifically, Fegans will need to continue working in order to stand out and lock a spot as a starter.
Fegans is one of three sophomores in the safety room alongside Eric Winters and Cade Carlson.
Impacting Auburn ranking
No. 17 - AnQuon Fegans
No. 18 - Omar Mabson II
No. 19 - Jake Johnson
No. 20 - Sylvester Smith-Reed
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