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Auburn hopes Petey Smith, prep teammates will follow brother's path to the Tigers
Posted by Charles Goldberg, Birmingham News February 09, 2008 4:39 PM
Categories: Football, Recruiting

Auburn may have the inside track on one of the top linebackers in the country next year -- that is, if his brother puts in a good word.

Junior Petey Smith, ranked one of the top 16 junior linebackers in the country by Scout, has been offered a scholarship by Auburn. The Tigers would love for him to follow in his brother's footsteps, considering his brother, Eric, signed with Auburn this week.

``It's a possibility,'' Petey Smith told the Tampa Tribune.

Eric said he'd work on Petey for Auburn.

"Oh, I'm going to be talking to him," Eric said. "I know it's going to be his decision where he'll end up going, but I'd love it if he ended up at Auburn with me."

Eric told the St. Petersburg Times before signing day that ``I'm Auburn or Clemson. I think he's Miami or Florida State.'' Petey said he's considering Clemson, too.

"I'd say it's 40 percent (that we'll play for the same college)," Petey said a few weeks back.

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