BAMA football stuff

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Team workouts well underway

****The University of Alabama football program is well into their summer 7on7 workouts, and sources close to the program have filled in BOL of several emerging themes from those early sessions:

- When asked which incoming freshman has stood out during workouts, one source delivered a quick and decisive answer: "Trey DePriest and Dee Hart."

DePriest has drawn rave reviews from Tide upperclassmen for his coverage skills and mastery of the defensive playbook already. Alabama feels very confident that they have two young budding athletic stars at linebacker in DePriest and CJ Mosley. Both have shown to be superior coverage defenders, and according to our source, "if you aren't interested in covering a back or tight end at linebacker for Nick Saban, you aren't going to play."

Hart has also shown a great grasp of the offensive playbook. The former five-star athlete is one of the first on the field and last to leave and has given even some of the Tide defensive regulars fits.

- The same source noted that few other freshmen have stood out in 7on7 work - not because of a lack of talent or work ethic, but because the competition among the regulars is so fierce. "This is about as deep as it has been here since Coach Saban arrived as far as talent," said the source. "Everyone out there is busting their arse trying to win a job. No one wants to sit on the bench, and those kids realize nothing will be handed to them. There are too many talented options if someone doesn't get it done."

- Redshirt freshman Phillip Sims has impressed to the point where it is likely both he and redshirt sophomore AJ McCarron will receive playing time and likely beyond the first few games. One source said that even the upperclassmen who were skeptical that Sims would poise much of a threat to the more experienced McCarron have been converted as believers.

- "Everyone knows the pecking order at running back as far as who will get the start, but that isn't stopping Eddie Lacey from going all out this summer and killing it in the weight room," said one source.

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