{"id":325247,"date":"2025-12-03T15:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/325247\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T15:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:54:08","slug":"samford-football-announces-six-new-signees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/325247\/","title":{"rendered":"Samford Football Announces Six New Signees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     BIRMINGHAM, Ala. \u2013 The Samford football program has signed six student-athletes for the 2026 early signing period, the program announced Wednesday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe class includes three offensive players and three defensive players. Three players in the class come from the state of Georgia, two from Alabama and one from Tennessee.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBelow is a short bio on each signee.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nCayden Aukerman (6-3, 190, WR, Franklin, Tenn.\/Page HS)<br \/>\nCayden Aukerman comes to Samford from Page High School in Tennessee . . . as a senior in 2025, he caught 29 passes for 512 yards and nine touchdowns . . . Aukerman will be playing in his fourth-consecutive state championship game on December 5, 2025.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBeau Ball (6-4, 296, OL, Carrollton, Ga.\/Carrollton HS)<br \/>\nBeau Ball played his high school football at Carrollton High School in Georgia . . . he spent time at tackle, guard and center at Carrollton . . . he helped lead Carrollton to a 14-1 record in 2024 . . . this season, the Trojans are currently 13-0 and are still competing in the state playoffs . . . he was selected second team All-Region in 2025.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLawson Estes\u00a0(6-2, 185, DB, Milton, Ga.\/Milton HS)<br \/>\nLawson Estes\u00a0prepped at Milton High School in Georgia . . . in each of his last two seasons at Milton, he had 72 total tackles, and he tallied 145 career tackles . . . he also intercepted three passes and recovered three fumbles.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWalker Turner (6-2, 216, LB, Enterprise, Ala.\/Enterprise HS)<br \/>\nWalker Turner was a standout linebacker at Enterprise High School in Alabama . . . as a senior for the Wildcats, Turner tallied 164 total tackles, including 142 solo stops . . . he also had 5.0 sacks in his senior campaign . . . as a junior, he finished with 140 tackles, with 97 solo stops and 2.0 sacks . . . for his high school career, Turner had 479 total tackles, 358 solo stops and 7.0 sacks . . . Turner was selected to play in the Alabama North\/South All-Star Game in December 2025.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nCorrion Tyson (6-0, 170, DB, Adamsville, Ala.\/Minor HS)<br \/>\nCorrion Tyson comes to Samford from Minor High School in Alabama . . . he played both defensive back and wide receiver at Minor . . . he had 57 total tackles, two interceptions and one fumble recovery as a senior . . . he had 35 tackles, three interceptions and one fumble recovery in his junior campaign . . . Tyson was selected to play in the Alabama North\/South All-Star Game in December 2025.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMaddox Waller (6-3, 237, TE, Canton, Ga.\/Sequoyah HS)<br \/>\nMaddox Waller prepped at Sequoyah High School in Georgia . . . he played both tight end and defensive end at Sequoyah . . . as a senior, he caught 17 passes for 251 yards and four touchdowns . . . he had 10 catches for 185 yards and two touchdowns in his junior season . . . Waller was selected to GHSA Region 6-5A First Team All-Region Team.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFOLLOW THE BULLDOGS:<br \/>\nFor the latest news and information on Samford football, visit the official website for Samford Athletics at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/samfordsports.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SamfordSports.com<\/a>. Fans can also follow the Bulldogs on social media at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/samfordfootball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\/SamfordFootball<\/a>\u00a0(Facebook),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/samfordfootball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@SamfordFootball<\/a>\u00a0(Instagram) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamfordFootball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@SamfordFootball<\/a>\u00a0(Twitter).\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; BIRMINGHAM, Ala. \u2013 The Samford football program has signed six student-athletes for the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-325247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}