{"id":276399,"date":"2025-11-07T02:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T02:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/276399\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T02:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T02:56:08","slug":"auburn-at-vanderbilt-injury-updates-thursday-availability-report-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/276399\/","title":{"rendered":"Auburn at Vanderbilt injury updates: Thursday availability report revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Auburn Tigers<\/a> have a tough test on Saturday, travelling to Nashville to take on the Vanderbilt Commodores<\/a>. There, the Tigers face a Commodores team looking to bounce back from a tough loss a week ago while they themselves look to find a way to move on from former head coach Hugh Freeze<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s never an easy time to make a midseason coaching change, but this should be a tough matchup. Vanderbilt is one the SEC teams trying to make a push at the College Football Playoff<\/a>. Meanwhile, interim head coach DJ Durkin<\/a> just announced a change at quarterback, moving to start Ashton Daniels<\/a>. Still, Auburn is a very talented team when healthy and playing its best football.<\/p>\n

As is the case in SEC play, prior to the game, both teams have released their availability reports for the game. These are the reports that each team released on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Auburn<\/p>\n

Out:
CB\u00a0Champ Anthony<\/a>
WR\u00a0Horatio Fields<\/a>
WR\u00a0Sam Turner<\/a>
CB\u00a0Donovan Starr<\/a>
OL\u00a0Connor Lew<\/a><\/p>\n

Questionable:
LB\u00a0Elijah Melendez<\/a>
K\u00a0Connor Gibbs<\/a>
TE\u00a0Brandon Frazier<\/a>
DL\u00a0Jourdin Crawford<\/a><\/p>\n

Vanderbilt<\/p>\n

Questionable:
S\u00a0Dontae Carter<\/a><\/p>\n

Out:
DL\u00a0Yilanan Ouattara<\/a>
QB\u00a0Drew Dickey<\/a>
RB\u00a0Chase Gillespie<\/a>
DB\u00a0Vanzale Hinton<\/a>
DL\u00a0Nikhil Jefferson<\/a><\/p>\n

Auburn has already been able to announce several key injuries that are going to make it that much more difficult against Vanderbilt. Notably, defensive back Champ Anthony is out. Initially injured against Kentucky a week ago, he was reportedly seen on crutches during practice this week. He\u2019s joining another defensive back, Donovan Starr, who is also out, so the back end will be tested against Diego Pavia<\/a>. <\/p>\n

On top of that, the Tigers do also have some injuries at wide receiver. Horatio Fields and Sam Turner are out for the Vanderbilt game. The outside of the Vanderbilt defense is a place some experts feel Auburn may be able to attack the Commodores. However, the more injuries that stack up, the harder it will be to do. <\/p>\n

Of course, Vanderbilt isn\u2019t without its own injuries. In particular, the Commodores had multiple defensive linemen ruled out in the availability report. Both of those defensive linemen missed last week\u2019s loss to Texas, though. So, Vanderbilt has had some time to adjust to life without them.<\/p>\n

Vanderbilt is set to play host to this SEC battle on Saturday, November 8th. Kickoff is currently scheduled for 4:00 p.m. EST. There will be more availability reports announced prior to game time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Auburn Tigers have a tough test on Saturday, travelling to Nashville to take on the Vanderbilt Commodores.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-276399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}