{"id":19197,"date":"2024-09-13T15:11:44","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T19:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=19197"},"modified":"2024-09-13T15:11:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T19:11:44","slug":"former-michigan-state-football-qb-loses-starting-job-at-auburn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=19197","title":{"rendered":"Former Michigan State football QB loses starting job at Auburn"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Former Michigan State football QB1 Payton Thorne has lost his starting job at Auburn after an ugly start to the season.<\/h2>\n<p>A couple of former <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/michigan-state-football-nick-marshs-breakout-not-a-flash-in-the-pan\/\">Michigan State football<\/a> quarterbacks earned starting jobs at their new programs this offseason but one of them is already being replaced following a tough two weeks to open the year.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Auburn announced that redshirt freshman Hank Brown would be starting for the Tigers against New Mexico on Saturday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEWS: Redshirt freshman QB Hank Brown is slated to start for Auburn against New Mexico, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_JHokanson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@_JHokanson<\/a> reports\ud83d\udc40<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sHAijBOm54\">https:\/\/t.co\/sHAijBOm54<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Nd5YKZj2Uj\">pic.twitter.com\/Nd5YKZj2Uj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; On3 (@On3sports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/On3sports\/status\/1834645058332786745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 13, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This is tough news for Payton Thorne who started for Auburn last season and led the Tigers to a surprisingly-solid season. He unfortunately got off to a horrible start at Auburn this season with just 487 yards and five touchdowns to four interceptions. He only completed 56 percent of his passes against Alabama A&amp;M and Cal which aren&#8217;t exactly world-beaters. His performance against Cal was the straw that broke the camel&#8217;s back as he passed for 165 yards and a touchdown with four interceptions. He completed just 14-of-27 passes in a home loss to the Golden Bears.<\/p>\n<p>Being replaced by a redshirt freshman is not a great look for Thorne, especially since Brown wasn&#8217;t the highest-rated quarterback in the 2023 class, ranked the No. 1,447 overall recruit and just the No. 71 passer, according to the 247Sports Composite.<\/p>\n<p>Thorne will have his work cut out for him if he wants to win the starting job back, but all it&#8217;ll take is a shaky performance from Brown and the coaching staff will likely give Payton the nod again. His running ability might help him win the job back as he&#8217;s rushed for 92 yards and two touchdowns through two games. Unfortunately, he has a battle ahead of him.<\/p>\n<p>While Thorne is struggling at Auburn, another former Spartan quarterback is having success in the Power Four. Sam Leavitt has led Arizona State to a 3-0 start and he&#8217;s looking like the best former Michigan State quarterback (we all knew this last year).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tough news for the former Spartan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[191,189,504,247],"class_list":["post-19197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-michigan-state-football","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-news","tag-payton-thorne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}