It was quite an eventful week for redshirt freshman quarterback Hank Brown prior to making his first start for Auburn on Saturday.
On Monday, two days after the Tigers’ home loss to Cal, he met with head coach Hugh Freeze who wanted to go over some film with Brown from the Cal game to pick his brain.
That same day, Freeze decided he was going to grant Brown the first college start of his career later that week when the Tigers faced New Mexico. However, he didn’t make Brown or former starter Payton Thorne aware of his decision until Thursday.
Brown said he had an inkling throughout the week that he might be making his first career college start as the Auburn coaching staff got him more involved in practice leading up to the game.
Without complete confirmation from Freeze that he would start, Brown went through practice as normal. …