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It’ll be a couple years before we know how well Kalen DeBoer, from a recruiting standpoint, knows how to pick ’em. But when it comes to quarterbacks, he’s wasted no time showing he knows where to pick ’em.
The Alabama football coach has secured the first quarterback commitment of his tenure at Alabama in Keelon Russell, an uber-talented, wiry kid from the state that’s always been America’s QB hotbed: Texas. A historical list of successful quarterbacks from Texas would fill out the rest of this column, but a shortened one would include Patrick Mahomes II, Drew Brees, Matthew Stafford, Andrew Luck, Vince Young, and Robert Griffin III. Throw in Sammy Baugh, Y.A. Tittle and Davey O’Brien for generations gone by.
It’s a club that could launch its own Hall of Fame.
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Retired Alabama coach Nick Saban pulled his last starting quarterback, Jalen Milroe, from Texas, so perhaps it’s fitting that it’s where DeBoer’s recruitment of the position has begun. It’s a never-ending procession of passers, and it’s this newer generation of Texas quarterbacks that Brad Stanfield knows best. The private QB coach has worked with a bunch of them, from Texas A&M’s Conner Weigman, to former UT star Sam Ehlinger, to one more familiar to Alabama fans: Milroe. He’s helped refine Milroe’s mechanics since the Alabama fourth-year junior was in the seventh grade.
And he’s been training Russell for a couple years, too.
“For me, I think he’s got more upside than (Longhorns starting QB) Quinn Ewers. Now, Quinn had some different juice on the ball, but after working with him and Hudson Card and Jalen …. you look at Conner Weigman and (Clemson’s) Cade Klubnik,” said Stanfield,…
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Author : The Tuscaloosa News
Publish date : 2024-06-10 09:11:16
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