Trotter and Moseley, know they have a long way to go.
Cam Newton left his successor quite the mountain to climb.
The kind of talent he showed, along with the numbers he put up in his Heisman campaign — 4,369 yards and 51 touchdowns — don’t just come along every year.
“I made the joke several times,” junior Barrett Trotter said. “He didn’t leave me shoes to follow. He left me skis to follow.”
Trotter and redshirt sophomore Clint Moseley began the process of filling those shoes — or skis — in the first spring practice session Wednesday.
Both have the advantage of already being in offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn’s system for two years, and Trotter is in the midst of his third spring under Malzahn.
But the two have also combined for only nine pass attempts — all Trotter’s — and 76 rush yards — all but 8 belonging to Trotter — in their Auburn careers.
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Is Trotter the heir apparent? This and other questions as Spring Football begins.
An undefeated season. An SEC championship. A Heisman Trophy winner. The first national championship in 53 years.
How do you follow that act?
Auburn will get to work answering that question today in the first of 15 spring practice sessions scheduled over the next three and a half weeks, culminating in the annual A-Day game in Jordan-Hare Stadium on April 16.
Here are five more questions facing the Tigers as they open spring practice today.
1. Who’s going to replace No. 2?
Aairon Savage was a veteran voice in the secondary, a senior who provided stability and … oh, the other one?
Cam Newton put up one of the most electrifying seasons in college football history in his one year with Auburn.
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A day didn't help to solve the fans quarterback questions for the new season.
Cameron Newton hit Darvin Adams on a frozen rope for his first pass in front of a live Auburn audience Saturday and followed later with a 61-yard pass to put Blue in the red zone.
Neil Caudle had big passes, too. He hit Quindarius Carr for a 70-yard touchdown and was part of three touchdown drives.
Barrett Trotter was just as sharp. He had two long touchdown passes and ran the offense without showing any ill effects of a season lost to a torn ACL.
If you found clarity in Auburn’s quarterback race Saturday, you weren’t at the highest-attended A-Day scrimmage in program history.
The game ended, by the way, with Blue on top, 21-17, after Dontae Aycock’s touchdown run early in the fourth quarter. If the drive would have finished in the third quarter, the points would have been awarded to White team, a perfect summation of just how trivial the final numbers were Saturday.
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Cam Newton makes his debut at the 2010 Auburn A day game.
The first time Cameron Newton dropped back to pass, he was sacked.
Not the start he –— or any of the 63, 217 fans in Jordan-Hare Stadium — wanted to see.
Maybe he isn’t made of steel.
Well, it wasn’t officially a sack. I mean, Antoine Carter never really touched him, let alone brought him to the ground. Maybe, Newton could have spun out of it, tucked the ball and flew into the end zone.
Maybe.
Or, maybe he would have been dropped to the Pat Dye Field turf like a 6-foot-6 sack of potatoes.
Maybe.
Who knows?
Reading too much into what would have happened on that play would be like trying to figure out a fortune cookie. It’s silly.
And, really, who cares?
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