With heavy anticipation for this year’s NFL Draft, Auburn’s Keandre Lambert-Smith has high aspirations and hopes to become the 5th active Auburn Tiger wide receiver in the NFL.
Lambert-Smith transferred to the Tigers in the spring of 2024 from Penn State to further his already illustrious career in the SEC. In three and half seasons at Penn State, Lambert-Smith hauled in 126 passes for 1,721 yards and 11 scores.
Lambert-Smith truly took his game to the next level when he transferred to Auburn and his hard work showed through his play early in the season.
In Auburn’s first game of the 2024 season, Lambert-Smith made himself known to the fans on the very first ball he caught. After the Tigers defense forced a 3-and-out against Alabama A&M on their first offensive possession, Auburn had the ball on their own 33 yard line. The first play of the Tigers’ ensuing possession, Peyton Thorne dropped back and threw a perfectly placed ball that hit Lambert-Smith right in the bread basket for a 67-yard touchdown, marking his first catch and score sporting orange and blue.
That one play seemed to be the story of his season as Lambert-Smith continued to torch defenders and find himself open downfield with only green in sight. His biggest game of the year came only three games later in Auburn’s conference opener loss against Arkansas. Lambert-Smith caught 5 passes for 156 yards, finding the endzone twice; the only two touchdowns that Auburn would score on the day.
With other notable performances against UGA, ULM, Texas A&M, and Alabama, you’d think draft scouts would be all over the 6 '1, 190 pound speedster who clocked a 4.37 second 40-yard dash at the NFL combine. Despite his stats, physically and on the field, Lambert-Smith is ranked as the 26th best wide receiver in the 2025 draft.
As this year’s draft is as up in the air as any draft in recent history, it truly is a toss up as to when and where Lambert-Smith will hear his name called. Despite all the uncertainty, one thing is for sure; any team who is lucky enough to draft Lambert-Smith will find themselves with a diamond in the rough who is accustomed to work, hard work, the Auburn way.
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