What’s Next for Audry Horn
In football, the center position is one of the most important roles. The ball always starts with the center, and the success of the entire offense hinges on whether or not he can consistently snap the ball to the quarterback. For senior football player Audry Horn, nothing is more natural.
Weighing in at a hefty 325 pounds and standing six foot three inches tall, Horn outweighs all but one member of the vaunted Dallas Cowboys offensive line. That kind of size made Horn feel right at home at the center position, but while his body is his greatest tool in football, it also presented him with a major struggle.
“I started getting symptoms sophomore year,” Horn said of his Crohn’s disease, an inflammatory bowel disease with symptoms ranging from abdominal pain to weight loss and even cancer. “Luckily, I don’t have it [Crohn’s disease] as bad as some others. I’m able to control it with diet, but if I get it sick I have medicine that will stop it.”
“I was a little bit worried it would affect my football career when I first got it,” said Horn, “but my dad has it and he was able to play professional baseball with it, so I knew I could manage it.”
After starting on the varsity football team as a sophomore, Horn began drawing attention from college programs during his junior season. “I registered with the NCAA and began putting my game film up on Twitter where coaches could watch it. A couple liked what they saw and started expressing interest,” said Horn.
Horn’s decision was easy to make. “After I got offered a preferred walk-on deal by Arkansas, I knew that was what I was going to do. So that’s where I’m committed now.”
“Horn is a natural leader,” said senior quarterback Taylor Price. “He definitely has a big challenge ahead of him playing at the [University of Arkansas] with the big boys, but I know he will work hard and make his mark on the team.”
“As a running back you want to have somebody that can protect you and give you a chance to run, and Horn always had my back,” said senior running back Orlando Henley. “You can say [a lot about his] being a good player, but he’s a great guy off the field too.”
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