2021: Key contributor on special teams … blocked a Georgia State punt that was recovered by Barton Lester for a TD … 31-yard reception vs. Georgia … tipped a Mississippi State punt ... SEC academic honor roll

2020: Grad transfer who adds depth to receiving corps … also plays on kickoff return team

Before Auburn: The 2018 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference MVP at Howard University, passing for 2,629 yards and rushing for 504 with 26 total TD … MEAC offensive player of the week twice, recording five 300-yard passing games … finalist for Black College Football Player of the Year … 2017 MEAC and ECAC Rookie of the Year, passing for 2,432 yards and rushing for 753 yards with 25 total TD … second team all-conference … three times MEAC rookie of the week and twice MEAC offensive player of the week … redshirted 2019 campaign … regional offensive player of the year as a senior at Grady High for Coach Earthwind Moreland, throwing for 3,322 yards and 33 TD and rushing for 1,000 yards and 13 scores

Personal: Birthday is August 6 … son of Cecil and Jackie Newton … has two brothers, Cam (the 2010 Heisman Trophy winner at Auburn and 2015 NFL MVP now playing for the New England Patriots) and Cecil Jr. … earned his bachelor’s degree from Howard in sport management with a minor in sociology in May, 2020 … doing graduate work at Auburn in the College of Liberal Arts