2025: Started all 12 games at left tackle … made his Auburn debut in the season opener at Baylor (8/29), helping lead the Tigers to a season-high 307 rushing yards in the game … earned a grade of 90 percent or higher in five games, including a season-high 97 percent mark vs. Missouri (10/18).

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