Auburn’s transfer wide receiver Keshaun Singleton has landed on the preseason watchlist for the 2026 Biletnikoff Award, putting him among the nation’s early candidates for the game’s top pass catcher.
Singleton, one of the transfer receivers who followed head coach Alex Golesh from USF to Auburn, was included by the Biletnikoff Award National Selection Committee on the first watch list of the cycle. That list features 44 receivers and will continue to update week by week as the season unfolds.
He isn’t the only Auburn name on it, either. Former Tiger Cam Coleman, once one of the highest rated recruits in program history, is also on the list.
Coleman is now the top target for Arch Manning and No. 5 Texas.
Singleton’s rise has been building throughout fall camp, where he has drawn praise from Golesh after camp work and scrimmages. Following Wednesday’s scrimmage, Golesh said, “For him, when his off the field process is right, he could be as special as there is in the country, and he has,” Golesh said following Wednesday’s scrimmage.
“It’s been just being fully committed to the process… Its always come so natural to him. Everything that goes into being an elite football player.”
The path to this point has been a steady climb. Singleton was a three-star recruit when he committed to Golesh and USF in 2023. He did not play as a freshman, then broke through in 2024 with 26 catches for 408 yards and three touchdowns in his first college season on the field.
He took another step in 2025, leading the team with 877 receiving yards and eight touchdowns on 50 catches. Those numbers ranked him eighth in the American Athletic Conference in yards and second in touchdowns.
Now at Auburn, Singleton is aiming for a first 1,000-yard season and a place in the program’s history books. Auburn has never had a player win the Biletnikoff Award, and Frank Sanders came closest when he was named a finalist in the award’s inaugural year in 1994.
If Singleton becomes the go-to receiver in Auburn’s offense the way the buzz around him suggests, he could give the Tigers an early centerpiece in Golesh’s first season and put himself in position to chase the hardware.
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