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The Alabama football team has some big expectations for Year 2 under coach Kalen DeBoer. DeBoer is looking for the right quarterback, following the departure of Jalen Milroe. While Alabama football feels they have found Milroe’s replacement, there appears to be some mystery about who the no. 2 play caller will be. Ty Simpson will start for Alabama to open the 2025 season. DeBoer is reluctant however to name a second-string play caller, as Keelon Russell and Austin Mack fight for that job. We won’t really get into that as far as who’s the second,” Kalen DeBoer said to reporters,…
Alabama covets versatility. It doesn’t matter if we’re talking about Kalen DeBoer and Ryan Grubb with the offensive guys, or Kane Wommack on defense. Providing flexibility and filling a variety of roles always increases value. A perfect example of that last year was Jihaad Campbell, who was an impact linebacker playing both on and off the ball. A player such as Jah-Marien Latham doesn’t have the same NFL ceiling as Campbell. Really, it’s not even close, but there’s still value to the various things the sixth-year senior can do for your defense. Wommack recently talked about Latham’s versatility, even bringing…
Every day until Aug. 29, Creg Stephenson is counting down significant numbers in Alabama football history, both in the lead-up to the 2025 football season and in commemoration of the Crimson Tide’s first national championship 100 years ago. The number could be attached to a year, a uniform number or even a football-specific statistic. We hope you enjoy. An Alabama coaching search that lasted more than a month and included a series of wild twists and turns ended in a touchdown — literally. Just before 4 p.m. on January 3, 2007, Nick Saban exited a private jet that had…
Alabama football’s 5-star commit hit with suspension after violation Alabama Football’s five star recruit Ezavier Crowell has been suspended for the season opener after an amateurism violation. Alabama football’s five-star 2026 commit Ezavier Crowell was suspended for his team’s season opener against Saraland on Aug. 22. Crowell was sidelined for violating the Alabama High School Athletic Association’s amateurism bylaws after reportedly accepting a gift, which has since been returned. Jackson High self-reported the violation and imposed a one-game suspension, a move accepted by the Central Board of Control per the Montgomery Advertiser. Crowell is now expected to return…
Did a cutthroat remark on the recruiting trail about a rival coach cost the Alabama Crimson Tide a chance to land Texas Longhorns quarterback Arch Manning A new book from author Seth Wickersham, “American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback,” details an incident from Manning’s highly publicized recruitment as the nation’s No. 1 overall player that involved former Crimson Tide defensive coordinator Pete Golding. In an excerpt shared to ESPN.com on Friday, Wickersham relayed an unsettling moment that occurred during a Zoom call between Golding, Manning and Nelson Stewart, Manning’s high school football coach at Isidore Newman in New Orleans.…
The conversation surrounding Kalen DeBoer’s gameday attire has carried over into his second season at the helm of Alabama football. This year, a Crimson Tide player has already come to his defense. Over the weekend, Shon Harvey, a University of Alabama alum and Crimson Tide superfan, was moving her daughter into campus, but made sure to take time to stop by the Supe Store and give DeBoer some fashion advice. We’re going to step away from the t-shirts with the thin print,” Harvey said in a TikTok video. “We gonna step it up.” Next up was a “standard polo,”a…
Alabama football already named one quarterback. The Crimson Tide won’t be showing the rest of its depth chart at the position. “Yeah, we won’t really get into that as far as who’s the second,” head coach Kalen DeBoer told reporters on Thursday. “These guys are going to keep competing. That’s for every position. So right now there’s balance between in some things we do, the reps, but there’s certainly coordination on who’s getting those reps as well.” DeBoer and the Tide named Ty Simpson the starter after an offseason-long battle for the job. Simpson was the obvious choice, given…
The Alabama Crimson Tide have officially revealed the program’s team captains for the 2025 season. Announced on Thursday via the university’s NIL entity, Yea Alabama, the Crimson Tide have four team captains for the 2025 season, with two coming on both the offensive and defensive sides of the ball. Those captains are quarterback Ty Simpson, center Parker Brailsford, defensive tackle Tim Keenan III, and inside linebacker Deontae Lawson. Lawson is a returning captain for Crimson Tide, while the three others are all first-time captains in Tuscaloosa. Of the four, Keenan and Lawson are both redshirt seniors, while Simpson and…
Soap opera star Greg Vaughan shared on social media that his son will be attending the University of Alabama this year as a freshman. Vaughan posted a message on Instgram Monday congratulating his son, Jathan, on the milestone of entering college. “From California skies to Carolina tides, with Texas grit and a touch of European roots—every memory and mile we’ve shared has led you here,” Vaughan said. “Now a freshman at the University of Alabama, stepping into dorm life, roommates, and fraternity brotherhood… maybe even an extra freshman 15lbs.” “He’s embracing the southern manor ways, becoming a man now and…
Lee Corso has been many things — a college football coach, Burt Reynolds’ college roommate and America’s favorite college football lovin’ crazy grandfather on ESPN’s College GameDay, where he makes his “headgear picks” each week on location during College Football Saturday. Corso’s career full of classic moments saw it’s final full season in 2024, with a Week 1 game in 2025 scheduled to be his final game before retirement. Below, we’ve also included a history of all of Corso’s picks from 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. RELATED: How accurate are Lee Corso’s picks? Meet the man who tracks…