2024 Recruiting: A post-ESD look at Bama's 2024 roster

[JessN]

A post-ESD look at Bama's 2024 roster
by Jess Nicholas, TideFans.com Editor-in-Chief

With Early Signing Day in the mirror, Alabama is set to bring in 23 new additions to its roster (24 if you count Texas A&M transfer portal refugee DL L.T. Overton), with three or four additional possibilities to come from either the transfer portal over the next month, or the traditional National Signing Day in February.

As TideFans.com restructures its recruiting and transfer portal coverage, we no longer will spend a great deal of time ranking all the other SEC teams’ recruiting classes. When TideFans.com began doing so in 1997 through the collective of writers and analysts that made up the entity we named NARCAS (North American Recruiting, Coaching and Athletic Survey), there was only a fraction of the information available about prospects that there is today, with some fairly major schools having no online journalistic presence whatsoever.

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With Early Signing Day in the mirror, Alabama is set to bring in 23 new additions to its roster (24 if you count Texas A&M transfer portal refugee DL L.T. Overton), with three or four addition…

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[BamaMoon]

The portal seems to be the place to get the additional OL and RB positions we need.

Would love to see Stewart transfer in. Add him and Williams next year to this group and it could be special!

 

[Tideflyer]

Thanks Jess, really appreciate the overview and the work you put into Tidefans. Truly has to be a labor of love.
It was mentioned in a couple of instances where players are approached by other programs in an effort to get them to transfer away from Alabama. That`s yet another area in which the college game has apparently devolved and degraded. It`s a harsh and unpleasant reality, and " the terrain upon which we find ourselves currently deployed". As such, do we do the same thing, or does CNS try to maintain a semblance of " moral high ground" ?

 

[Tidelines]

Excellent, next year lines up talent wise to be alot of fun.

 

[BhamToTexas]

The offense is going to be fantastic. Just a couple of things to work out on the OL.

The defense however is concerning, depending on who stays or leaves it could look drastically different than this year.

 

[JohnD]

The offense is going to be fantastic. Just a couple of things to work out on the OL.

The defense however is concerning, depending on who stays or leaves it could look drastically different than this year.

Yes, but those couple of things are huge. Nothing works well if the OL is struggling, as we saw last year at times and earlier this year.

 

[TiderJack]

The offense is going to be fantastic. Just a couple of things to work out on the OL.

The defense however is concerning, depending on who stays or leaves it could look drastically different than this year.

Just on back end and at edge. I expect Lawson to come back so MLB will be very good and DL returns most guys with a lot of depth. Downs is a superstar at safety and Story got a lot of reps and Amos will be one corner and we have some highly rated corners who came in last year as well as this year's class. We will have six returning starters which is about the average for most Bama teams during the Saban era. When you re-load and have CNS on the defensive side I don't get concerned.

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

If we can get Domani Jackson out of the Portal, then we are completely set on the back end...

 

[Tidelines]

I think we are good at safety whether we get Jackson or not. He will provide more competition, but we're good.

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

I feel really good about where we currently set (without Jackson). Getting Jackson would be additional icing on the cake...

 

[jjv0004]

I appreciate that everyone is confident with the secondary next year but potentially losing 4 starters is a pretty huge deal at positions where communication and experience are very important.

 

[Tiderollin32]

I appreciate that everyone is confident with the secondary next year but potentially losing 4 starters is a pretty huge deal at positions where communication and experience are very important.

Agreed however we lost Battle, Hellams, Branch and Khyree Jackson last year and played much better this year. I do think they probably had something to do with Golding leaving and Steele coaching.

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

Saw that we just got that extra icing on the cake!

RTR