{"id":839914,"date":"2026-03-28T23:29:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T23:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/839914\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T23:29:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T23:29:19","slug":"senior-bowls-drew-fabianich-praises-keyron-crawford-before-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/839914\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Bowl&#8217;s Drew Fabianich praises Keyron Crawford before NFL draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/teams\/auburn-tigers\/3480\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Auburn;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Auburn&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Auburn<\/a> EDGE Keyron Crawford is getting high praise as he prepares for the 2026 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeyron has really proven he\u2019s a twitchy, disruptive athlete,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/seniorbowl\/status\/2037567824672268291?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said Senior Bowl executive director Drew Fabianich;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;said Senior Bowl executive director Drew Fabianich&quot;}\" class=\"link \">said Senior Bowl executive director Drew Fabianich<\/a>. He also added, &#8220;He came in with a third-round grade from the league, and now you\u2019re looking at a guy who could go in the high second after what he showed at the Senior Bowl and his Pro Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Crawford had a big season in 2025 for the Tigers, getting five sacks and 36 total tackles. That was after his first season with Auburn in 2024, where he did not collect a single sack. Crawford finished second on the team in sacks behind Xavier Atkins, who had nine on the season. He transferred to the Tigers after the 2023 season from Arkansas State. During his sophomore season with the Red Wolves, he had five and a half sacks. A statistic that had Auburn fans excited upon his arrival on the Plains.<\/p>\n<p>The name Drew Fabinanich should be a familiar one to Auburn fans. The current executive director of the Senior Bowl was the Tigers&#8217; General Manager from 2022-23 before taking on the same role for West Virginia. He was named the lead man for the Senior Bowl on April 25th, 2025. He replaced Jim Nagy, who took on the General Manager role for the Oklahoma Sooners.<\/p>\n<p>Contact\/Follow us @<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/theauburnwire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:TheAuburnWire;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;TheAuburnWire&quot;}\" class=\"link \">TheAuburnWire<\/a> on\u00a0 X (Twitter), and like our page on<a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/theauburnwire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Facebook&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> Facebook<\/a> to follow ongoing coverage of Auburn news, notes, and opinions. You can also follow Phillip on Twitter<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PJordanSports\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@PJordanSports;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;@PJordanSports&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> @PJordanSports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Auburn Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/auburnwire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/auburn\/football\/2026\/03\/28\/auburn-football-keyron-crawford-nfl-draft-praise-senior-bowl\/89363647007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Auburn&#039;s Keyron Crawford earns praise from Senior Bowl&#039;s Drew Fabianich;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Auburn&#039;&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Auburn&#8217;s Keyron Crawford earns praise from Senior Bowl&#8217;s Drew Fabianich<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Auburn EDGE Keyron Crawford is getting high praise as he prepares for the 2026 NFL Draft. \u201cKeyron has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":839915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[987,115538,115539,7,38603,93359,6,15,1787,3654,2823,413,115540],"class_list":["post-839914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl-draft","tag-auburn","tag-drew-fabianich","tag-drew-fabinanich","tag-football","tag-jim-nagy","tag-keyron-crawford","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-draft","tag-oklahoma-sooners","tag-senior-bowl","tag-the-tigers","tag-west-virginia","tag-xavier-atkins"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839914","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=839914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}