{"id":192912,"date":"2025-07-09T06:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T06:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/192912\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T06:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T06:56:11","slug":"4-star-lb-adam-balogoun-ali-commits-to-auburn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/192912\/","title":{"rendered":"4-star LB Adam Balogoun-Ali commits to Auburn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four-star linebacker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/adam-balogoun-ali-177030\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Balogoun-Ali<\/a> has committed to Auburn.<\/p>\n<p>Balogoun-Ali, who attends Cardinal Newman High School in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., announced his decision Tuesday on social media.<\/p>\n<p>He chose Auburn over his other finalists, Kentucky and Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAuburn is home,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Auburn defensive coordinator DJ Durkin played a major role in Balogoun-Ali\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCoach Durkin is great,\u201d Balogoun-Ali said. \u201cHe is a genuine dude, and someone I listen to and believe in.\u00a0We have gone over the scheme and it is exactly what I like to do with coverage and blitzing. When I talked to the players on the official visit about the scheme, everything matched up with what coach Durkin has told me too, so it all sounded great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Balogoun-Ali said he sees himself playing the dime linebacker position at Auburn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think (the scheme is) very linebacker friendly,\u201d he said. \u201cI could definitely see myself playing in something like that. I would play \u2026 they call it \u2018dime.\u2019 They do a whole lot of things. They play man, blitz \u2026 all that stuff. I think I would play the dime position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Balogoun-Ali is the eight commitment in Auburn\u2019s 2026 class. Rivals ranks him a four-star recruit and the No. 29 linebacker in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four-star linebacker Adam Balogoun-Ali has committed to Auburn. Balogoun-Ali, who attends Cardinal Newman High School in Palm Beach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[27234,7],"class_list":{"0":"post-192912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-adam-balogoun-ali-26-cardinal-newman","9":"tag-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114821974279834528","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}