| RECRUIT 🏈 2024 Transfer Portal Thread - DB DaShawn Jones has Committed to Alabama

[BamaFan334]

Downs was and is a stud. Not downplaying other players who came aboard but we need to be honest with ourselves about that cat. How much will it impact us? We shall see. Hopefully not much.

Played well, but also gave up a lot deep. Second game, but the Texas game he was abused. He was great coming into the box and making plays. We will miss Terrion and the idea that we son't want to throw towards Kool-Aid more than anything.

 

[Justneedme81]

Played well, but also gave up a lot deep. Second game, but the Texas game he was abused. He was great coming into the box and making plays. We will miss Terrion and the idea that we son't want to throw towards Kool-Aid more than anything.

THis: People remembers what DOWNs did well.. not what he didn't do well.

 

[bamafan9201]

Hamilton no longer visiting this weekend.

 

[Rolltide24]

Coach is doing wonderful. I don’t grade on a curve, so there doesn’t have to be a A+ in my system. He’s close.

I don’t think I overvalue Downs. He’ll likely be All American the next 2 seasons, or should be. Will we have an an All American on the back end? I don’t know, maybe we will. He got burned some, no doubt, more early in the season but he was a true Freshman. Texas was his second game at the college level and Texas had 2 WRs drafted in the first 52 picks of the draft. So I wouldn’t grade too hard on his second game against that talent. But just my opinion.

 

[TerryP]

Will we have an an All American on the back end?

in 25

 

[Crtuneman]

I just saw where this dude entered the portal. He was a 4 star prospect from St Thomas Aquinas and committed to PSU. Seems like a big pick up if Bama could land him.

 

[bamafan9201]

I just saw where this dude entered the portal. He was a 4 star prospect from St Thomas Aquinas and committed to PSU. Seems like a big pick up if Bama could land him.

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Yea he's scheduled to visit tomorrow and sunday I believe.

 

[Kamikazi18627]

Although Downs is a good player and we will definitely miss him. At least he was a safety and not a corner or an edge guy. Sucks to lose him, but if he didn't want to stick around.....bye.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

The 5 I wish had stayed… these are not the 5 best players overall, just the 5 I’d liked to have seen stick around for fall.

Caleb Downs
Trey Amos
Earl Little II
Peyton Woodyard
Terrence Ferguson

Might be forgetting someone, but I’ve been thinking about this off and on all day.

 

[TerryP]

The 5 I wish had stayed… these are not the 5 best players overall, just the 5 I’d liked to have seen stick around for fall.

Caleb Downs
Trey Amos
Earl Little II
Peyton Woodyard
Terrence Ferguson

Might be forgetting someone, but I’ve been thinking about this off and on all day.

One last name is a misnomer.

 

[musso]

One last name is a misnomer.

I swear, must you always be so cryptic and vague??? You speak as if you're always disseminating classified intelligence.

 

[Justneedme81]

James Bond? or Deez Nuts?

 

[24and7]

I think Downs will get exposed.. OSt does not have the coach or personnel he had at Bama.. and he may get a little karma too..

 

[Nothing_But_A_Winner00]

Now that the portal is closed until next year, how do guys feel about the guys we lost? I know losing players sucks, but it could've been MUCH worse than what it was. I give Deboer and his staff major props for being able to retain all the players that they did.

More impressed with who we kept.

 

[Nothing_But_A_Winner00]

THis: People remembers what DOWNs did well.. not what he didn't do well.

 

[Rolltide24]

Yeah, 3rd game for an 18 year old. Looked ugly, but he was in the right position and didn’t back down from a guy running down hill. 107 tackles with 70 solo is not bad for a frosh.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Feels like a bit of wishcasting going on in re: to Downs. The kid is a stud. It would pretty much take a career altering injury or for him to become completely disengaged mentally from football for his trajectory to change.

 

[24and7]

South Florida head coach is the next big name in coaching, I bet.. He is the real reason Tennessee beat us, not Hype-all..

 

[rammerjammer]

Feels like a bit of wishcasting going on in re: to Downs. The kid is a stud. It would pretty much take a career altering injury or for him to become completely disengaged mentally from football for his trajectory to change.

Agreed.. I can't remember if it was Terrion Arnold or Kool-Aid, but during the year one of them (I think it was Arnold) did weekly interviews with The Round Table in B'ham. During the course of interviews and just arbitrary questions, something came up about rolling with team mates and doing certain things and about their personalities. Arnold talked about Downs and how he was the quintessential Saban player with his mindset and mentality. Each play has a life of it's own. When it is over, there is nothing you can do about it. Get up and make the next play. Said that Downs personified that and would say stuff like that, whether it was a good play or a bad play.......on to the next.

 

[Nothing_But_A_Winner00]

Yeah, 3rd game for an 18 year old. Looked ugly, but he was in the right position and didn’t back down from a guy running down hill. 107 tackles with 70 solo is not bad for a frosh.

He's a stud, just having a laugh.