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JessN: 2025 Roster Rundown: Wide Receivers and Tight Ends
If we do that we won't run the football nearly as effectively. We're going to need the schematic flexibility we get from having the Y and H involved together. If you take a close look at what this staff liked to do in Washington (as well as what a lot of NFL staffs are doing now with Ys, Hs and... -
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2025 Roster Rundown: Defensive Line
It's basically because of the lack of a lot of proven quantities at the second- and third-team levels. Edric Hill has the most experience of anyone on the bench (outside of the Florida transfer Collins) and Hill is about the very definition of "tough tweener" as you'll find in the SEC. I think... -
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JessN: 2025 Roster Rundown: Wide Receivers and Tight Ends
Basically we don't know what we have exactly at tight end. I think they signed a bunch of guys, will let the pieces fall where they're going to fall, and adjust accordingly next year. Plus, Knudson, Cuevas and Dalton are out of eligibility after this season and Lewis might be too (seen... -
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2025 Roster Rundown: Linebackers
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2025 Roster Rundown: Defensive Line
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JessN: 2025 Roster Rundown: Offensive Line
2025 Roster Rundown: Offensive Line by Jess Nicholas, TideFans.com Editor-In-Chief This week, we take a look at the entire offensive line, all five positions. Given that Alabama rotates linemen between all three roles (center, guard, tackle) throughout the season, predicting an exact depth... -
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JessN: 2025 Roster Rundown: Wide Receivers and Tight Ends
2025 Roster Rundown: Wide Receivers and Tight Ends by Jess Nicholas, TideFans.com Editor-in-Chief This week, our 2025 Alabama Preview continues with a look at the wide receiver corps and also the tight end group. For this week, we look not only at the three starting wide receiver positions... -
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JessN: Alabama Preview - 2025 Roster Rundown: Running Backs
2025 Roster Rundown: Running Backs by Jess Nicholas, TideFans.com Editor-In-Chief Our 2025 Alabama team preview continues today with a look at the running back group. As we stated previously in our Quarterbacks preview that kicked off this series, in recent years, we’ve waited until fall camp... -
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JessN: Alabama Preview - 2025 Roster Rundown: Quarterbacks
We're going to be doing something a little different with our typical 2025 Alabama Preview article. It's now an eight-parter with some more in-depth looks at the personnel in each position group. Kicking it off, of course, are the QBs... -
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JessN: DeBoer is building something: What it is, is the question
Prior to last season I mentioned that for SEC teams, the general rule is that you lose an extra game per year if you change either your offensive or defensive systems. We changed both. In my mind, we were about a 10-2 team. With the "system change penalty" we would have been 8-4 in the regular... -
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JessN: Five Questions as Spring Practice Nears End
He injured his knee very early on in the spring and didn't kick much. I believe he is most likely to redshirt this year and Blake Doud (grad transfer from the Colorado School of Mines) will be Alabama's punter. -
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JessN: A-Day wrap-up: What it wasn't, was A-Day
Huge reason for that: It's called a collective bargaining agreement. There is one in every pro sports league where the players are unionized. There isn't one in college sports. Yet. -
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JessN: DeBoer is building something: What it is, is the question
DeBoer is building something: What it is, is the question by Jess Nicholas, TideFans.com Editor-In-Chief When the spring transfer portal closed late April, Alabama stood alone, or at least in very rare company: No Crimson Tide player declared for the portal during its spring period. For those... -
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JessN: A-Day wrap-up: What it wasn't, was A-Day
You're not wrong. The problem (and Cam Newton's comments show that he doesn't understand the issue fully, either) is that it's virtually impossible under the laws of the USA to limit anyone's earning potential. About the only way to do it is via an employee-union collective bargaining agreement... -
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JessN: A-Day wrap-up: What it wasn't, was A-Day
After I wrote that, I noticed that Rodney Orr over at TiderInsider estimated it at 12,000-15,000. I may not be right at 5,000 but I think I'm closer than he is. Want to feel even sadder? They had an autograph session on the field afterward. If you aren't a member of Yea Alabama (a separate...
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