{"id":55867,"date":"2022-10-27T14:39:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T18:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=55867"},"modified":"2022-10-27T14:39:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T18:39:37","slug":"auburn-wide-receiver-tarvarish-dawson-plans-to-enter-the-transfer-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2022\/10\/auburn-wide-receiver-tarvarish-dawson-plans-to-enter-the-transfer-portal\/","title":{"rendered":"Auburn wide receiver Tar’Varish Dawson plans to enter the transfer portal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Auburn wide receiver Tar’Varish Dawson is planning on entering the transfer portal, per sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dawson, a former four-star receiver out of Lehigh Acres, Florida, was a speedster in high school and projected out long-term as one of Auburn’s go-to slot players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hype really started to build around him following Auburn’s spring practices – In the A-Day scrimmage open to the public, Dawson was force-fed the football multiple times in several different ways. He was tabbed as a versatile, fast receiver by the coaching staff, and they backed it up – he got touches on an end around, a screen pass, and a few deep shots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“He might be the most improved young player on the entire offense,” Auburn<\/a> offensive coordinator Eric Kiesau said of Dawson back in the spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apparently not improved enough to get more than 42 snaps this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dawson appeared in four games this season (Mercer, San Jose State, Penn State, LSU) and recorded a statistic in two: one catch and one rush attempt each against the Bears and the Spartans. In total… two receptions for 30 yards and two rush attempts for 10 yards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most will likely remember Dawson for being the receiver that was overthrown for a potential game-winning touchdown in the Birmingham Bowl. It was one of his five snaps that he received in 2021 (snap counts per Pro Football Focus).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tar’Varish did not mention Harsin in his social media post announcing his decision, but rather gave thanks to receivers coach Ike Hilliard for believing in him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With how thin Auburn’s roster projects to be in 2023, a loss of a young, fast (four-star) receiver (which the Tigers do not possess very many of) is difficult to spin in a positive way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tar’Varish is the second receiver to leave the program in the last 24 hours after flex wideout Landen King<\/a> announced he was entering the portal on Tuesday afternoon. 10 of Auburn’s 18 signees of the 2021 recruiting class have now left the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bryan Harsin<\/a> & Co. are struggling to keep this thing above water level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Auburn wide receiver Tar’Varish Dawson is planning on entering the transfer portal, per sources. Dawson, a former four-star receiver out of Lehigh Acres, Florida, was a speedster in high school… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":55868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1868],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55869,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55867\/revisions\/55869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}