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Jaylin Simpson Season 2023

#36

Jaylin Simpson Season 2023

PositionS
Weight178 lbs
Height6-1
ClassSenior
HometownBrunswick, Ga.

2023: Starting safety with veteran experience … Jim Thorpe Award semifinalist … 118 career tackles, 7 INT … 16th nationally with 4 interceptions … 50-yard interception return for a score in the season opener with UMass … also a 13-yard fumble return and 3 tackles vs. the Minutemen … 25-yard interception, 4 tackles at Cal … 12-yard interception, 3 tackles vs. Samford; the first Auburn defender with interceptions in 3 consecutive games since Jerraud Powers in 2007 … 3 tackles, TFL at Texas A&M … interception, 3 tackles vs. Georgia … 4 tackles and PBU that led to the D.J. James interception at LSU … 2 tackles, TFL against Ole Miss … 6 tackles, PBU at Vanderbilt … 6 solo tackles vs. New Mexico State … PFF national team of week (Georgia) … Associated Press, ESPN, CBS Sports, USA Today, The Athletic, Fox Sports, Sporting News, 247 Sports, PFF, Reese’s Senior Bowl midseason All-America … Bednarik Award midseason watch list … honorable mention All-America (Phil Steele) … all-SEC (AP, Phil Steele 1st tm; SEC coaches, CFN, Athlon 2nd tm) … Reese’s Senior Bowl invitation

2022: Rotating starter at cornerback … 2 tackles vs. San Jose’ State and against Penn State … 4 solo tackles, PBU against Missouri … 2 solo stops, PBU vs. LSU … 3 tackles at Georgia … career high 6 tackles vs. Arkansas … interception, 5 tackles at Mississippi State … 3 solo tackles vs. Texas A&M … interception, 3 tackles, 3 PBU against Western Kentucky … 6 tackles at Alabama

2021: Reserve cornerback … missed the Alabama State and Penn State games (injury) … 4 tackles at LSU … 2 tackles against Georgia … 5 tackles at Arkansas … key fourth-quarter interception vs. Ole Miss … 4 tackles at Texas A&M … 2 tackles vs. Mississippi State … 4 tackles at South Carolina … 3 tackles, PBU vs. Alabama … 2 tackles in Birmingham Bowl

2020:  Made his first start at cornerback against Kentucky, recording 4 tackles, a TFL and a PBU … injury kept him out of action against Georgia and Arkansas … 2 tackles, PBU against LSU … tackle, PBU against Tennessee … 4 tackles at Mississippi State … 2 solo tackles in Citrus Bowl … SEC Freshman of Week (Kentucky) … Jim Thorpe Award honor roll (Kentucky)

2019: True freshman safety who played in four games … two tackles for season

High School: Talented defender who projects as a safety … 48 tackles, four interceptions as a senior for Coach Brandon Derrick’s Knights at Frederica Academy, helping them to the state championship … GISA all-state and all-region 2-3A … consensus four-star recruit … PrepStar All-America … state high jump champion and a basketball and baseball letterman

Personal: Birthday is March 17 … son of Thaquanna Cannon … has two siblings, Shakira and Lync … a battle rapper … studying in the College of Business at Auburn

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Freshman
2019

Defensive Back
6-0 / 162 lbs
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Redshirt Freshman
2020

Defensive Back
6-0 / 171 lbs
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Sophomore
2021

Cornerback
6-1 / 175 lbs
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Junior
2022

Cornerback
6-1 / 178 lbs