Deuce Knight’s stellar performance in Auburn football’s 62-17 victory against Mercer would not have happened without the brilliance of wide receiver Malcom Simmons. Simmons put together 149 receiving yards on five receptions leading the receiving corps in yards. Cam Coleman also added five receptions for 53 yards and a touchdown right before halftime. “I thought Malcolm did tremendous on some of those scrambles coming back to the ball. Being a big-time receiver, coming back to his route and getting open for Deuce,” Durkin said postgame. “I thought that whole receiving group did a great job for him, and Deuce delivered the ball. The best part was Deuce was making the right decisions and delivering the ball where it was supposed to go. There’s a couple of those plays where it wasn’t quite how it was designed, but he just went and made a play,” Durkin added. On one of Knight’s six touchdowns, he connected with Simmons on a 91-yard touchdown, tying for the third longest touchdown pass in school history (Bo Nix to Anthony Schwartz vs. LSU in 2020). It was also Simmons’ first touchdown of the season. Knight broke down the play and how he and Simmons discussed it during pregame. “Malcolm, he the craziest athlete you will ever see in this world. Malcolm’s insane,” Knight said postgame. “So, you know, he just said, ‘Hey, just throw the ball up.’ He told me this in the hotel before we left. ‘Hey, just throw the ball up to me.’ I’m like, ‘I got you.’ And he said he was going to do that.” Simmons set a career high with 149 receiving yards, tying for 24th-most in a single game in Auburn history. It was the most receiving yards by a Tiger since KeAndre Lambert-Smith had 156 yards versus Arkansas on Sept. 21, 2024.
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