2025: Transfer offensive tackle from Virginia Tech … arrived in January

Before Auburn: Started 12 games at tackle for the Hokies in 2024, earning honorable mention all-ACC honors … ACC offensive lineman of week vs. Boston College … a third team All-American in 2023, when he started all 13 games, allowing only 5 sacks in 813 snaps; played in one game in 2022 … recorded 55 tackles, 12 TFL, 5 sacks as a senior playing tackle on both sides of the ball for Coach Jerry Hatcher at Whale Branch Early College High … 2020 first-team all-Lowco defensive lineman … also a wrestling letterman

Personal: Birthday is November 26 … son of Danielle Chaplin … has one sibling, Zanya … studying in the College of Liberal Arts