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Predicting Alabama’s WR depth chart after the addition of Tyler Harrell

Projecting Alabama’s WR depth chart after the addition of Tyler Harrell

On Friday afternoon Nick Saban and the Alabama football team received a massive commitment via the transfer portal from former Louisville wide receiver Tyler Harrell.

Harrell will join a loaded but unproven wide receiver corp in Tuscaloosa and will most likely push for some significant playing time due to his elite ability to stretch a defense vertically.

It’s hard to say with absolute certainty who the starting receivers will be for the Tide this fall. Outside of Jermaine Burton, who coach Saban praised all throughout spring practice, there hasn’t been anyone that has taken the bull by the horns just yet.

With the addition of Harrell, I thought it was a good time to try and see if we can predict how things will shake up for Alabama at the wide receiver position.

First…X-WR position…

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5 offensive players Alabama fans need to watch during A-Day

5 offensive players Alabama fans need to watch during A-Day

Alabama’s annual A-Day game is set to kick off on Saturday at 2:00 p.m. CT inside Bryant-Denny Stadium.

There is plenty of talent both young and old to be excited about if you are a ‘Bama fan, and it will also be our first opportunity of the spring to see this year’s version of the Tide.

In his Thursday press conference leading up to A-Day, head coach Nick Saban said the format for the scrimmage would be the first-team offense against the first-team defense and the second-team offense against the second-team defense. With this format, fans will get to experience a more game-like scenario with good on good.

Leading up to the start of A-Day tomorrow, I wanted to sit down and give fans a handful of players from each side of the ball that I believe could make an impact during the scrimmage. I want fans to keep in mind that these are players that fans have not seen make a tremendous impact yet for the Crimson Tide, but could on Saturday and during the 2022 season.

Today we will look at the offensive side of the ball. Let’s roll.

What Nick Saban said following Alabama’s first scrimmage of the spring

On Saturday afternoon inside Bryant-Denny Stadium, the Alabama football team completed its first of three scrimmages of the 2022 spring festivities. After the scrimmage was wrapped up, head coach Nick Saban took to the podium to answer some …

On Saturday afternoon inside Bryant-Denny Stadium, the Alabama football team completed its first of three scrimmages of the 2022 spring festivities. After the scrimmage was wrapped up, head coach Nick Saban took to the podium to answer some questions from members of the media.

Here are a few of the thoughts from the seven-time national championship head coach.

First…thoughts on the wideouts…

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Spring Preview: Looking at the Alabama WR depth chart

Jermaine Burton and Agiye Hall could make for a fantastic duo

One of the biggest strengths of the 2021 Alabama football team was the wide receiver position. But now the Tide must replace its top three targets from last season in Jameson Williams, John Metchie, and Slade Bolden.

The absence of Williams and Metchie was felt a bit prematurely in the national championship game against Georgia when Metchie missed the entire contest and Williams went down early with an ACL injury and the Alabama offense fell stagnant.

Talent is not the question in Tuscaloosa. Alabama has recruited the wide receiver position as well as anyone in the country over the past several years. The question is whether or not that talent can translate to on-the-field production for reigning Heisman-winning quarterback Bryce Young.

Alabama is not only returning several young players, but coach Nick Saban was also able to grab arguably the best wide receiver in the transfer portal in former Georgia Bulldog Jermaine Burton.

Burton brings plenty of talent and experience but will be asked to carry the load for the first time in his career. A young player must step up and it starts this spring.

Let’s take a look at the wide receiver depth in Tuscaloosa.

Several Alabama signees finish as 5-stars in recent On3 rankings update

Nick Saban is showing no signs of slowing down both on the field and on the recruiting trail

Traditional signing day is just a little over a week away and although Nick Saban and Alabama have pretty much wrapped up its class of 2022, player rankings continue to be updated.

On Monday, On3 Sports released its updated On300 rankings and several of Alabama’s signees finished with five-star status.

The Crimson Tide came in at No. 2 in the country in the consensus rankings just behind Texas A&M.

In total, Alabama saw five of its signees finish with a five-star rating. Of those, three were on offense and two were on defense. Here is every five-star signee the Crimson Tide has for the class of 2022.

To top things off, the updated rankings also show that in total, Alabama landed 15 of the top 100 players according to On3. Here are the remaining signees who finished inside of the top 100.

The class of 2022 is absolutely loaded for Saban and the Tide and it should be a lot of fun to watch these prospects develop over the next few seasons.

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Alabama’s 2022 early enrollees include nine top 100 recruits

Alabama’s 2022 early enrollees include nine top 100 recruits

The season has come to an end and it is time to start shifting our focus to the team that will take the field in 2022.

Nick Saban and his staff had a fantastic early signing period back in December, and several of those prospects have already enrolled at the university.

Among those that have enrolled early, nine of the twelve are top 100 recruits according to the On3 consensus rankings.

Below is the complete list of early enrollees and their On3 consensus rankings.

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Pete Golding deserves some major recognition for his recruiting efforts

Maybe it’s time we give Golding the recognition he deserves as one of college football’s best recruiters!

Pete Golding called masterful games as Alabama’s defensive coordinator during the Iron Bowl against Auburn and the SEC Championship Game against Georgia.

But, before that, some of us questioned his abilities as a defensive play-caller, especially after the 41-38 loss on the road to Texas A&M. The Iron Bowl helped to change the narrative in a 24-22 4OT win in Jordan-Hare, where the Tide hadn’t won in six years. The defense continued to play its best football in the 41-24 SEC Championship Game win.

Here we are, in December, and Golding continues to hit his stride, this time on the recruiting trail. Golding helped bring seven recruits on board as commits, and on the Early National Signing Day, he helped the Tide sign six, with more expected to sign in the coming months prior to the official National Signing Day.

Among them are four-star wide receivers Shazz Preston and Aaron Anderson, four-star linebacker Shawn Murphy and four-star defensive lineman Jaheim Oatis.

That’s this year, sure, but Golding has been tearing it up on the recruiting trail since he arrived in 2017. His best commitments in his time at the Capstone are five-star linebacker Dallas Turner (who saw plenty of action this year due to injury), Kool-Aid McKinstry and five-star linebacker Drew Sanders (who also played several snaps before an injury put him out). This is a noticeable group of former recruits.

In my opinion, Golding has earned himself at least another season to prove that his defense can be consistent throughout an entire season, but we can certainly use his recruiting acumen for years to come.

Be thankful that our defensive coordinator is among the best recruiters in college football.

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5 takeaways from Alabama’s early signing day

5 early signing day takeaways for Alabama

Yesterday, Nick Saban and Alabama hauled in some of the top talent from around the country on early signing day.

Currently, the Tide sits with the second-ranked class in the nation according to On3.

Now that the dust has settled and we have had time to reflect on some of the events from a wild Wednesday, I thought we could take a few moments to look at some of the key takeaways from this steller class for the Crimson Tide.

Let’s get started!

SIGNED: 4-Star WR Aaron Anderson signs with Alabama after decommitting from LSU

WR Aaron Anderson puts pen to paper and is a member of the Crimson Tide!

Alabama’s 2022 recruiting class is growing stronger and is rounding out, as some of the top prospects from across the nation are signing with the Crimson Tide on early National Signing Day.

One strong offensive pickup for Alabama today comes from the state of Louisiana. Aaron Anderson of New Orleans chose the Crimson Tide over various high-profile programs.

What makes this interesting, though, is that Anderson was originally committed to LSU and was going to stay in his home state. He decommitted in October, after being. committed for 10 months to the Tigers.

Anderson stands at 5-foot-9, 185 pounds and will be joining a talented, young wide receiver corps in Tuscaloosa.

Stay up to date with Alabama’s 2022 class with Roll Tide Wire’s ‘Early Signing Day Tracker.’

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Tigers Football Recruiting: Former LSU commit flips to Alabama

Aaron Anderson didn’t go far, as he committed to Alabama on Friday.

Any hope that the LSU Tigers could somehow save the lost pledge from Aaron Anderson seems to have gone out the window. It was likely a longshot anyway.

On Friday night during Senior Night, the former commit Aaron Anderson announced his commitment to the Alabama Crimson Tide. Anderson had been vocal about his displeasure over the firing of Ed Orgeron, stated he was the sole reason for him heading to LSU.

The Louisiana native will now take his talents to Tuscaloosa as part of the Tide’s 2022 recruiting class. Alabama ranked as the No. 2 class in the country, Anderson being one of their 18 current commits. The LSU class dropped to No. 12 in the 247Sports team composite rankings.

The Tigers now only have one commit at wide receiver, Decoldest Crawford. He is a three-star commit from Green Oaks in Shreveport, Louisiana.

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