Auburn offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn still plans to use freshman Kiehl Frazier as a change-of-pace option at quarterback going forward.

He just wants to find a better way to do that without messing up flow of whoever’s behind center.

“It keeps the quarterbacks out of his rhythm,” Malzahn said. “I’ve got to do a better job of keeping the guys in rhythm.

“It’s fair to say it’s been tough — especially last week with Clint (Moseley) getting into a rhythm. I need to do a better job of helping him do that.”

Frazier has been seeing at least a handful of snaps every week since the Florida Atlantic game on Sept. 24, the highwater mark coming with his 25 plays against Arkansas.

The freshman ran 18 plays Saturday against LSU to Moseley’s 40, completing 2-of-4 passes for 16 yards and rushing nine times for 31 yards.

Moseley went 5-for-8 for 80 yards on pass plays immediately following his re-entry to the game after Frazier’s snaps.

Blake practices
Malzahn answered affirmatively when asked if junior wideout Emory Blake practiced Tuesday night, but did not elaborate on his progress.

Blake, the Tigers’ leading receiver, injured his right ankle in the fourth quarter against South Carolina on Oct. 1 and has been shelved since then, playing only a snap or two against Florida on Oct. 15.

Malzahn said freshman wideout Trovon Reed practiced only one day last week before returning against LSU and catching two passes for 26 yards after missing three weeks with a shoulder injury.

“The fact that Trovon came back, that was a positive. He has the ability to stretch the field vertically,” Malzahn said. “It was a limited role, but his role will expand.”

Auburn’s ‘Ironman’
Auburn head coach Gene Chizik said he could ask sophomore defensive end Craig Sanders to go out and play offensive guard if he wanted to.

Chizik’s not going to do that, but he could.

“He’s one of those guys that never says a word, comes to work every day,” Chizik said. “We consider him a starter because of his value to the defense, and his flexibility to be able to do more than one thing. He’s kind of the ironman guy.”

The 6-foot-4, 260-pound Sanders has played both power and quick end for the Tigers this year, along with a brief stint at defensive tackle during the South Carolina game.

Sanders has nine tackles and 4.0 tackles for loss this year.

“The value of a guy like that to your team is probably overlooked a lot of times,” Chizik said, “but not by the coaches and his teammates.”

GSR numbers released
The NCAA released its newest batch graduation success rate numbers Tuesday, which measure the percent of student-athletes who enrolled at a school between 2001 and 2004 that graduated within six years.

Auburn’s football team earned a score of 63, the sixth-best mark in the SEC and the same as its mark last year, but still below the FBS average of 67 percent.

The Tigers’ men’s basketball team graduated 29 percent, well below the national average of 66.

The football players included in the report came in under Tommy Tuberville’s stint as head coach and most of the men’s basketball players came in when Cliff Ellis was coaching.

Auburn’s men’s tennis and women’s golf teams earned perfect scores of 100, and the school’s sports teams had an overall GSR of 76, slightly below the national average of 80.