Breakdown of each position from a coach

I have a couple buddies who coach on the team. They are extremely excited about this season and in turn have risen my expectations. Everyone’s concern is obviously our difficult schedule, but when you consider that Alabama should have lost literally 5 games last year, A&M is unproven, and we have LSU at home. The SEC West is wide open and attainable for us. This is long, but it’s what they have relayed to me on each position this year.

QB: don’t believe the rumors of a QB battle. Dart has improved tremendously and everyone expects him to make a corral type jump from everyone I’ve talked to. The stupid mistakes he made last season should be fixed.

RB: Judkins (enough said), Bentley is a great second option and is finally healthy and ready to go. We just added to Oregon State RB who is going to be a decent option too. I’ve heard that Reescano the 4star freshman out of Texas is going to be great, but he needs to get a tad bit quicker. He has plenty of time to do that.

WR: maybe the unit I’m most excited about. Tre Harris from LA Tech is a stud. Franklin from UTSA was the best wide receiver in the G5 last year. Watkins was serviceable last year and will be better this year. The biggest surprise is how good Ayden Williams has been so far in camp. I know this is a big praise, but the staff feels he is the next up out of the Treadwell, AJ, Mingo, and DK group. Dayton Wade came on late in the season and became a decent option as well.

TE: the Memphis transfer is legit and has already been named team captain according to someone I know on the team. Obviously we know how talented Trigg is but he has continued to be a headcase throughout camp. Hopefully that gets fixed, but they’ve been having issues with him.

OL: the group on offense I’m most worried about. We return everyone besides broecker, but this group had Dart in hell for a lot of last season. Hopefully they have improved with another year together. We’ll see.

D-Line: Golding is going to a 4 man front. Jared Ivey, Pegues (who has fixed his conditioning), Zxahvion Harris (got into some trouble this summer but is too good to kick off the team) will be great, and Cedrick Johnson starting. Added some depth in the portal. I think this is the best D-Line unit we’ve had in a while.

LB: Khari Coleman is going to step up and I think he will be great. Also got named preseason 4th team SEC by Phil Steele. I think the Louisville transfer will be big here. 5-star freshman Perkins has apparently already been making big plays. The 4 man front will help take some pressure off this unit. I’m not worried about them at all.

DBs: my one concern. Two transfer portal CBs will probably be starters, and they could be great, but just are unproven so we’re just going to have to wait and see. The good thing is we do have depth here, and both of our safety’s return from last year.