The Auburn Tigers earned a stress free victory over the Mercer Bears on Saturday afternoon at Jordan-Hare Stadium, but the biggest story of the day was far from the final score.

In an effort to preserve the red shirt eligibility for next season of starting quarterback Ashton Daniels, who took over for Jackson Arnold several weeks ago, Daniels was sat so as not to go over the maximum games allowed to still have redshirt eligibility.

Instead of bringing back Arnold though, DJ Durkin decided he was going to give his young freshman former five-star a shot and announced this week Deuce Knight was going to be starting the game.

Of course, the assumption was for Knight to get some reps against an FCS opponent and that Daniels would be brought back for the Iron Bowl the following week, but with

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