The looming question in Tuscaloosa this offseason is who will start at quarterback for the Alabama Crimson Tide. We are unlikely to have the answer until the Tide open the season at home against Middle Tennessee on Sept. 2.
Replacing a Heisman Trophy winner and a program-altering player such as Bryce Young is no easy task for any coach. Then again, not every coach is Nick Saban. The Tide have multiple options at the QB position among Jalen Milroe, Ty Simpson and Tyler Buchner.
Milroe has the upper hand. He has been in the system for the most time and is the only one of the three to start a game for Alabama. Unfortunately, neither Milroe nor Simpson played very well in Alabama’s A-Day in April, which prompted the coaching staff to bring in Buchner, a Notre Dame transfer.
Greg McElroy, who won a national championship as quarterback for the Tide, weighed in on the QB competition saying,
“I can’t tell you right now who’s going to win that quarterback competition. I can’t do it. Even as a guy that played there, that has inside information with what’s going on at Alabama. Nobody knows. You can ask Nick Saban today ‘Hey who’s your starting QB going to be?’ and he cannot tell you with confidence who that guy is going to be. It’s going to play itself out over the course of the summer, it’s going to play itself out over the course of fall camp and it wouldn’t be the first time that it played itself out into the season.”
There is still plenty of time left in the offseason for Saban and the Crimson Tide to figure it out, but the clock is ticking.
Roll Tide Wire will continue to follow Alabama football as the 2023 offseason progresses.
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