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OH WOW: Michigan State Expert is NOT SOLD on Stanton Ramil, New Auburn Tackle
07 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What are the implications of Stanton Ramil's transfer to Auburn?
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Chapter 2: What should Auburn fans expect from Ramil's performance?
The host of Locked on Spartans. I went on Locked on Spartans a few days ago because you guys get Caleb Wheatland. You're coming on Locked on Auburn because Stanton Ramil, the left tackle for the Spartans for all of 2024 for the first part of 2025. He was looking to suffer an injury. We'll get more on that in a second. But he is committed. He's now an Auburn Tiger, Matt Sheehan.
Your initial thoughts from the Auburn perspective should be what? Should we be excited about Stanton Rimmel?
Going to answer your question with a question, Zach. One of my favorite tricks that I like to do here. What's your left tackle situation looking like right now? Is he coming in as a bonafide starter, you think, on day one? Will there be some competition?
If there was no, if we added no one else, which we will have to, we don't have enough people in the room, he would be the starter.
Okay.
I don't hate it. I would categorize it perhaps as a gamble, and I think that's a fair assessment here. First and foremost, I wish nothing but the best for the kid, like we talked about before recording. We had him on Lockdown Spartans, nice kid, good leader.
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Chapter 3: How does Ramil's injury history affect his potential as a starter?
Friend of the program.
Friend of the program, all this and that, and definitely no sour grapes with his departure, but I think it's a gamble. Let's talk about the upside here. How can this work? He came in as a four-star. He missed his entire true freshman season because ACL injury. Then he gets thrust into the starting role, redshirt freshman season. About three or four games is where he blossomed into a starter.
Now, it wasn't an outstanding season for him, but your first college action in Big Ten play, you're going against the likes of Ohio State, Oregon. You can understand how that might not go so well right off the rip here. But, hey, you know what? Big body comes in with a big pedigree. Like, maybe down the line it can work.
You don't panic about a tackle because it didn't work out in his first year starting. Now, here's where maybe the low end of the gamble comes. Let's say that you do roll snake eyes and, uh-oh, this didn't work out because, like I said, missed that freshman season with an injury. He did miss pretty much every game after the first month of the season due to another leg injury.
And I'm sorry, I don't know if it was the same leg or not. It wasn't to the extent of an ACL tear, but it was definitely one.
Matt, it looks like he came back in Week 9 and played 18 snaps. Did they just try to give it the old college try to see and it didn't pan out? What did that mean?
That's precisely what it was. And those 18 snaps against Michigan, too. So this kid's a gamer. He wanted to come in and he wanted to make a difference in that big rivalry game. Just never materialized here. So, yes, somewhere inside that body is a four-star pedigree, a guy with a lot of experience. Can it materialize? Sure.
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Chapter 4: What is Auburn's offensive line situation heading into the season?
But injury issues and also in that first month of last season against Boston College, he let up, I think it was five or six pressures, a sack, and that's not necessarily a demon front four over there for Boston College. So I'm hoping for the best for him. I hope it can work. It still absolutely can work. I think it's a little bit of a roll of the dice here, though, for Auburn.
Yeah, they're going to have to get a handful of guys like this. I don't see this staff really pursuing the top offensive tackles in the portal. I think Ramil was ranked 11th on On3's portal rankings for tackles, which is kind of what I expected. I think they're going to get a bunch of guys 10 to 20 ish. And like, let's just see what happens.
Last few years, Auburn's gotten guys towards the top end of the portal when it came to tackle. And I don't know if it's been worth it financially, how much of that has been coaching and scheme. I've been a little bit more defensive of the offensive line was at Auburn than most people have. And I'll continue to do that. The health thing concerns me about this.
It's awesome.
Yeah.
Yeah, Auburn lost a lot of guys in the portal, as did Michigan State, and there's a million reasons why a kid can enter the portal. I'll make that very clear when we talk about it. But it's been pretty well reported by several folks in the Auburn media that the way Alex Golish and his staff are structuring these NIL deals is you can get paid at Auburn, but you are going to have to earn it.
You're getting some up front, but a lot of it is incentive-based. Depending on the type of guy Stanton Ramil is, this could be perfect for him. You mentioned he's a gamer. You mentioned that he wants to be that guy. You couldn't keep him off the field against Michigan. I love that.
Could this be a situation where it's like, look, if you come in here and stay healthy and you're our left tackle, you are going to get paid. If that's the context and approach of this, I absolutely love this move based on what I'm hearing from you.
Yeah, there's absolutely a world where this all works out.
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Chapter 5: How does Ramil's Big Ten experience compare to SEC competition?
And he does have years of eligibility remaining, which is the nice thing, too. And that's also where I find it a little interesting. You have two years left, correct? Yes, I believe it. Zach, we talk nothing but college sports. I can't figure out what eligibility rules are anymore these days.
Well, it's like in 23 when he missed the entire year. That would be a red shirt.
I think it's two years.
Right. Then all of 2024, it was him. And then he played in five games last year. So I'm assuming that's two years. But if he's a senior, then threatens to sue the NCAA because he got hurt his freshman year. Like, does he get another? Who knows?
Right. And there's this clause that if you're from a state that starts with letter A, you get another year of eligibility. Like, it's all fascinating in the NCAA this day and age. But, yeah, I like the play for Auburn. Right. Because that's such is life in offensive line recruiting, too. It's like there's always a give and take here.
right like you're going to take in a standard meal you get years of eligibility could work out injury issues could also pop up and have it not work out on our side though i thought it was interesting that look standard meal walks and then they immediately get a guy that okay top five left tackle in the portal in ben morosky out of yukon now the give and take with that is morosky has only got one more year of eligibility so it's
Instead of, you know, keep it with the Ramil train, keep that chugging along, they're going with a one-and-done guy who is already more solidified at being a solid tackle. But, you know, again, just like I said, you're going to have to give out something here when you bring in top-end guys.
Yeah, there's another element of this that is a little bit different than other guys that Auburn's brought into the portal so far. I want to touch on what that means in just a moment. Right here, Unlocked on Auburn. Today's show brought to you by our friends at FanDuel.
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Chapter 6: What are the risks and rewards of Auburn's portal strategy?
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Chapter 7: How does NIL influence player transfers in college football?
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Matt Sheehan, host of Locked On Spartans, hanging out with us for a few more minutes. So a common theme for the guys that have come in so far, and it's still early, like there's still so many guys in the portal, so many roster spots to fill, both on both of the teams that we cover, Auburn and Michigan State, and just throughout college football as a whole.
On the Auburn side of this, it's been a lot of young guys, and they've all been, pretty much all of them have been from USF. And the other guys so far have been from Howard and Miami of Ohio. So this is the first... four edition. I'm confirming that in my brain. Okay. Yes. First P4 addition in the portal.
And I said, like, I'm fine with adding the USF guys at the skill positions because, like, speed is speed. And it's like you're either running the system and getting open or you're not. Like, there's levels there. I didn't want a bunch of USF guys in the trenches. And we haven't gotten that yet.
I like that Ramil, I mean, arguably the Big Ten was the best conference of college football last year, especially at the top.
Mm-hmm.
regardless of if you want to say the SEC is better, you're splitting hairs at this point. And I like that he's battle-tested in that conference. I think that's a big deal.
It is. It helps. And, you know, I just always go back to his end of the redshirt freshman season, and that's where things really started to come together for him. And he said that on our show just as much, that, yeah, it was kind of crazy having some of my first games against the Ohio States of the world, Michigan, Iowa. But once that last month of the season happened,
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Chapter 8: What does the future hold for Auburn's offensive line depth?
Well, not only did he have eight games of experience, but it also eased up a little bit in that redshirt freshman season. So he came into last offseason with confidence. Then the year starts. He looks decent enough against Western Michigan, but I just can't shake that Boston College game out of my head. Because that certainly seemed like that was his first game of college football action.
So I know he's better than that. I think he knows he's better than that. But it was such a...
want to disaster seems like a little hyperbolic but it was a definitely a step back from where we remembered that he was in 2024 so okay could he is there a chance he's a right tackle matt fascinating question i he hasn't played any at least to my knowledge and if he has according to pff all the snaps at michigan state have been at left tackle
Why not give it a run there, though? I mean, I'm sure. Especially if you get a few guys like that, right, that are kind of like lotto picks and, like, moving guys around. Unless that's the pitch, right? It's like, did Golish go to Ramil and say, hey, you're our left tackle no matter what?
But is he in a position to say, oh, I will only sign for left tackle positions at SEC or Big Ten schools? Or is he in a position where he's like, maybe I've got to be a little open to a little bit of everything if I do want to keep playing. And not just Power 4, but upper echelon Power 4 football. Right. That might not actually be a horrible theory to walk into the offseason with.
Yeah, because I was going to ask you, like, is he a natural left tackle?
From all accounts, yeah, I believe that's all he played in high school, as far as I'm concerned, and that's all he played here at Michigan State. But why not give it a swirl on the other side of the line here?
Yeah, yeah, I'm interested with that. Auburn's got a guy, like we haven't heard officially if he's coming back yet or not, named Tyler Johnson, who's kind of always been around, and he's always gotten beat out by the transfer tackle that they've brought in. And he stayed, and it kind of seems like now's the time for him to do it. Interesting. and I don't think he's bad by any means.
And in fact, he might've been, it might've been close and it might've been better, but since it was close, they're going to give it to the guy that they're paid, you know, a million dollars to come in and play the position. So I'm curious to see like what that looks like, what that dynamic looks like, but Auburn's got a bunch of questions on the O line.
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