{"id":711177,"date":"2026-06-18T09:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T09:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/711177\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T09:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T09:13:10","slug":"relationships-and-opportuinty-to-play-sec-football-help-auburn-land-safety-knyair-crumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/711177\/","title":{"rendered":"Relationships and opportuinty to play SEC football help Auburn land safety Knyair Crumb"},"content":{"rendered":"

Auburn<\/a>\u2018s recruiting momentum continued this week as the Tigers landed a commitment from Severn (Md.) DeMatha Catholic<\/a> safety Knyair Crumb<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The three-star chose Auburn after a recruitment that featured more than 20 scholarship offers and a final group that included several Power Four programs.<\/p>\n

The Tigers did not enter the picture early. In fact, Auburn wasn\u2019t even part of Crumb\u2019s original official visit plans.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was definitely a little later in the process when Auburn got in,\u201d Crumb told Rivals. \u201cAuburn was not in my initial top four official visits. At the time, Virginia Tech<\/a>, Maryland<\/a>, Penn State<\/a> and Syracuse<\/a> were the top four.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything changed when Auburn offered. When they came in, that\u2019s kind of one of the ones that got a little bit of pop to them. It was nothing but to have a conversation with my dad and my agent. They kind of gave me the logistics of everything, and it opened my eyes to what Auburn would have to offer.<\/p>\n

\u201cThings changed quickly from there.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Tigers offered in the spring after defensive coordinator DJ Durkin<\/a> visited DeMatha and defensive backs coach Tim Banks<\/a> continued building the relationship.<\/p>\n

One phone call in particular left a lasting impression.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember I was at my cousin\u2019s house when Coach Banks called me and offered me. I kind of gravitated towards him right then and there.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of times coaches get on the phone and give you an hour talk before they throw the offer. With Coach Banks, it was five or 10 minutes and he got straight to the point. That\u2019s kind of how I\u2019m wired. He connected with me right away.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Auburn continued recruiting him, the Tigers steadily climbed his board.<\/p>\n

By the time he arrived for his official visit, Crumb already had a strong feeling about where things were headed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would say Auburn definitely took the cake on the visit,\u201d he said. \u201cI planned to take all of my official visits, but I had a thing made up in my head that I did want to go there and play there,\u201d Crumb said. \u201cThe official visit was needed to confirm things. I wanted to confirm the relationships I was feeling were real and that everything wasn\u2019t just based off a high-emotion moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

The visit accomplished exactly that.<\/p>\n

Rather than committing before leaving campus, Crumb took time to think about everything he experienced.<\/p>\n

\u201cI came home, slept on it, and woke up the next day,\u201d he said. \u201cI couldn\u2019t shake the feeling or what I felt. After that, I called Coach Golesh and told him for the next three to four years, I would like to play under him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Three factors ultimately separated Auburn from the competition.<\/p>\n

\u201cOpportunity, relationships and the stage were big in my decision. Being able to go down there and see it for myself was big,\u201d Crumb said. \u201cYou can tell me everything you want on the phone, but until I see it, I can\u2019t speak for myself.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the bright lights go away and everything, you get down there and it\u2019s real life and it\u2019s back to football. What everyone told me, from the players to the coaches, it felt real. It felt like no matter what, I was going to get the best from the coaches.\u201d<\/p>\n

The SEC also appealed to the Maryland standout.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think what I have pent up in my head is SEC football,\u201d Crumb said. \u201cI feel like that\u2019s the best of the best. It puts me on possibly the biggest stage in college football where I can compete against the best guys out there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Auburn\u2018s recruiting momentum continued this week as the Tigers landed a commitment from Severn (Md.) DeMatha Catholic safety…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[306718,399,306719,31163,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-711177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-dematha-catholic-stags-hyattsville","tag-football","tag-knyair-crumb-27-dematha-catholic","tag-md","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711177","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=711177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}