After a rain/lighting delay, Auburn practiced for around two hours this evening. Tommy Tuberville talked with reporters for a few minutes afterward.

Here's what he had to say:
We had a little delay, but we got most of it in. We cut our kicking out. Tomorrow we’ll put on shoulder pads and go with it. You can tell guys are anxious to hit somebody. But it was a pretty good day considering you couldn’t do anything but run plays and teach steps. But tomorrow we start the real thing, tomorrow afternoon. We have meetings in the morning, we have tests most of the day. We’ll probably miss a couple guys tomorrow afternoon because of summer school tests that end Thursday, so we’ll be hit and miss with those guys. But we hope to get in by Saturday to have a nice little scrimmage.

Is the scrimmage Saturday gonna be in the stadium?
Yeah, unless it rains a bunch.

Have you been able to watch much of Raven Gray so far in the first two days?
I don’t watch many linemen during practice without shoulder pads on. I’ll start watching them tomorrow. I’ve been watching mostly the quarterbacks and receivers. They don’t do much more than that even with pads on. We’ll start watching the line of scrimmage tomorrow.

What were your impressions of the quarterbacks and receivers?
Yeah, Kodi’s throwing the ball much better than he did last year. He’s much-improved. There’s gonna be a good battle there. That’s good. Both guys are helping each other out. Neil Caudle’s throwing the ball well. It’s fun to watch them with no shoulder pads on. Now the pressure starts tomorrow and we’ll see. We’ll start watching a little bit different attitude in terms of knowing the guys are coming at ‘em pretty good.

Have any of the newcomers done anything to get your attention?
Christian Thompson is looking real good. You can tell he covers a lot of ground. He was on a state championship team last year and he was the guy on defense that made it work for St. Thomas. He’s really the only guy I’ve watched much. The younger guys, we’ll start watching them more tomorrow.

DeRon Furr wasn’t out here today. What’s his status?
Yeah. Don’t know. Don’t know.