Auburn kept its momentum rolling on the recruiting trail with a major addition up front, landing four-star interior offensive lineman Jatori Williams out of the 2027 class.
Williams, who had been committed to Miami since May, backed off that pledge in early October before choosing the Tigers. The Phenix City, Alabama, native had been weighing Auburn and Alabama as his next stop, with Kentucky also in the mix, but Auburn emerged as the clear winner after his decommitment from the Hurricanes.
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At 6-foot-4 and 330 pounds, Williams arrives as one of the more coveted linemen in the cycle. Rivals’ Industry Ranking lists him as the No. 9 interior offensive lineman in the class and the No. 5 player in Alabama. He was also the top available recruit in the 2027 class when he made his decision.
For Auburn, the commitment adds another important piece to a recruiting class that is starting to stack up. Williams becomes the Tigers’ fifth offensive line pledge in the 2027 cycle and the third interior lineman to join the group, alongside four-star Reed Ramsier and three-star Jaylon Moore. Among Auburn’s guard commits, Williams is the highest-ranked.
His commitment also gives Auburn another top-five in-state prospect, joining linebacker Isaac McNeil as the second-highest player from Alabama in the class. That fits with head coach Alex Golesh’s push to be more efficient in in-state recruiting since taking over the program at the end of 2025.
Williams had already built a strong relationship with Auburn through repeated visits. He was on the Plains six times since the start of the 2025 season, mostly splitting those trips between Auburn and Alabama. Those were all unofficial visits until after his decommitment, when he returned for Auburn’s win over Arkansas for his first official visit with the program.
The Tigers’ latest addition comes after they lost Nash Johnson, who flipped from Auburn to Georgia in October after being committed since May. Now Golesh has replaced that loss with a player who can help stabilize an offensive line that has struggled since the start of the season with quarterback protection for Byrum Brown.
Auburn now sits with 23 commitments in Golesh’s first class, a group that has the Tigers in the top half of the SEC in recruiting rankings and inside the top 15 nationally. The next challenge is keeping that class together.
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