Attrition and injuries are always a possibility.So Bama has 6 scholarships QBs, right? AJ, Sims, Ely, Morris, Bateman and McCloud.
Bama also has 7 scholarship RBS, right? Yeldon, Hart, Fowler, Drake, Henry, Jones, Tenpenny? (Am I missing someone?)
So that's 13 scholarships in the backfield. That seems like an awful lot. I just can't imagine we don't have some QBs transfer and an RB do the same. At least we'll have to move an RB or two somewhere else on the field.
Thoughts?
Ex. This past year Sims abandoned ship and fled to Virginia for playing time.
That led to a situation where were thin at QB.
Injuries to return men, injuries to running backs, injuries to wide receivers sometimes happen and you better have somebody waiting in the wings for playing time.
In the RB category I like Hart, but will he comeback with the speed we need. I saw him as a scat back type, not a pound em up the middle rugged RB.
I like Blake Sims but truthfully he's a different style QB than what our system is designed for. Blake would have been our go to guy this last year if AJ had gone down, but we would have by necessity, changed parts of our offense to cater to his unique skill set.
These are reasons quite aside from the occasional academic problem that force us to stock pile skill people.
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