🏈 2026 Alabama Roster Management Chart and Portal news

Here is the 2026 Roster Management Chart. You can view last year's version here. I will keep it updated regularly as player portal in and out and early draft departures make their announcements.

Position	Seniors	Juniors	Sophomores	Freshmen	2026 Signees	Departures
Quarterback		Austin Mack*		Keelon Russell*	Tayden Kawaa Jett Thomalla	Ty Simpson^
Running back		Daniel Hill	Kevin Riley* AK Dear		Ezavier Crowell Traeshawn Brown	Jam Miller Dre’lyn Washington
Tight End	Danny Lewis Jr.*	Jack Sammarco Josh Ford	Jay Lindsey* Kaleb Edwards Marshall Pritchett Jaxon Shuttlesworth*		Mack Sutter	Josh Cuevas Brody Dalton
Wide Receiver	MJ Chirgwin*	Noah Rogers* Ryan Williams	Lotzeir Brooks Rico Scott* Derek Meadows		Cederian Morgan Maurice Mathis	Germie Bernard
Offensive Line		Racin Delgatty* Ethan Fields* Jayvin James*	Casey Poe* William Sanders* Michael Carroll Nick Brooks	Ty Haywood* Kaden Strayhorn* Mal Waldrep* Jackson Lloyd*	Chris Booker Bryson Cooley Jared Doughty Bear Fretwell Tyrell Miller~	Kadyn Proctor^ Parker Brailsford^ Jaeden Roberts Geno VanDeMark Kam Dewberry
Defensive Front	Devan Thompkins* Kedrick Bingley-Jones*	Terrance Green* Edric Hill*	Jeremiah Beaman* Isaia Faga* London Simmons Steve Mboumoua*	Caleb Smith*	Corey Howard Kamhariyan Johnson Nolan Wilson	Tim Keenan III LT Overton
Edge Linebacker	Fatutoa Henry* Desmond Umeozulu Jah-Marian Latham+	Yhonzae Pierre* Justin Hill*			Jamarion Matthews Malique Franklin
Inside Linebacker	Caleb Woodson	Cayden Jones	QB Reese* Duke Johnson II Abduall Sanders Luke Metz		Xavier Griffin Zay Hall	Deontae Lawson Justin Jefferson Nikhai Hill-Green
Safety	Bray Hubbard Keon Sabb*	Red Morgan Zay Mincey Dre Kirkpatrick Jr	Ivan Taylor		Jireh Edwards Rihyeal Kelley
Cornerback		Zabien Brown Carmelo O’Neal	Dijon Lee Chuck McDonald		Jorden Edmonds Zyan Gibson Nick Sherman~	Domani Jackson DaShawn Jones

This chart will be updated regularly to reflect the most up to date roster outlook for 2026.

The Transfer Portal will be open from Friday, January 2nd until Friday, January 16th. Players will have those 2 weeks to enter the portal, but can sign after the portal closes. The 2 teams that play in the CFP National Championship Game will have a five-day portal period from January 20-24.

Note- Players in Red were either starters or significant contributors who played 150+ non-special teams plays in 2025.
* Player has used his redshirt
^ Underclassmen entering the NFL Draft
+ Unknown if Latham will apply for 6th year
Bold Player is transferring in for 2026
~JUCO signee


Players That Are Transferring To Alabama
TE Josh Ford (from Oklahoma State)
TE Jaxon Shuttlesworth (from Jacksonville State)
WR Noah Rogers (from NC Sate)
OL Nick Brooks (from Texas)
OL Racin Delgatty (from Cal Poly)
OL Ethan Fields (from Ole Miss)
OL Ty Haywood (from Michigan)
OL Jayvin James (from Mississippi State)
OL Kaden Strayhorn (from Michigan)
DL Terrance Green (from Oregon)
DL Kedrick Bingley-Jones (from Mississippi State)
DL Caleb Smith (from Washington)
DL Devan Thompkins (from USC)
EDGE Desmond Umeozulu (from South Carolina)
LB Caleb Woodson (from Virginia Tech)
DB Carmelo O’Neal (from Mercer)



Players That Are Transferring From Alabama
RB Richard Young (to Colorado)
WR Cole Adams (to Vanderbilt)
WR Bubba Hampton (to Oregon State)
WR Isaiah Horton (to Texas A&M)
WR Jaylen Mbakwe (to Georgia Tech)
WR Jalen Hale (to SMU)
OL Arkel Anugwom (to Northweatern)
OL Olaus Alinen (to Kentucky)
OL Micah DeBose (to Vanderbilt)
OL Wilkin Formby (to Texas A&M)
OL Joseph Ionata (to Georgia Tech)
OL Roq Montgomery (to Western Kentucky)
DL Jordan Renaud (to Ole Miss)
DL James Smith (to Ohio State)DL
DL Kelby Collins (to South Carolina)
DE Keon Keeley (to Notre Dame)
EDGE Noah Carter (to Georgia Tech)
EDGE Qua Russaw (to Ohio State)
DB Cam Calhoun (to Ohio State)
DB Kameron Howard (to Boston College)

 

[musso]

Maybe the plan is to accumulate so many OL on the roster that we have an adequate sample size to then clone 5 brand new linemen, after isolating all the best attributes of each of them for each position.

 

[OldPlayer]

Maybe the plan is to accumulate so many OL on the roster that we have an adequate sample size to then clone 5 brand new linemen, after isolating all the best attributes of each of them for each position.

You know that when you clone a being (human, pig, cow, chicken), they aren't cloned at adult status. Cloning would create a new being at birth. They would still need to mature and train to become fully "identical" to the original being.

 

[musso]

You know that when you clone a being (human, pig, cow, chicken), they aren't cloned at adult status. Cloning would create a new being at birth. They would still need to mature and train to become fully "identical" to the original being.

Nah ahhh. I’ve seen them do it in the movies where they clone people at the same age.

 

[musso]

What he isn't is an All-SEC level tackle

I’m okay with that. None of Indiana’s or Miami’s O linemen were All-SEC either.

 

[7276Bamabeancounter]

I was listening to Wyatt Fulton on Tide 100.9 at lunch today and he made the comment that we could see players being added to the portal up until midnight tonight because schools have 48 "business" hours to process a transfer portal request from a player. Since Saturday, Sunday and Monday were not business days that meant that if a player notified their school as late as 11:59 Friday night that they wanted to enter the portal, the school would have until 11:59 tonight to process it so that their name shows up on the transfer portal list. I understand that but he also said that a player could transfer after the end of the portal period by withdrawing from his school and enrolling at his new school and could play immediately as a walk-on non scholarship player. He said this is what the quarterback for Tulane did last year when he transferred from Brigham Young. My question to those of you that understand a lot more about the portal and NIL than I do is can that player receive NIL at his new school? I would assume he could and, if so, why would he care if he was on scholarship or not? Seems like this would make the portal transfer period a moot issue for most high value players. What is to stop them from transferring at any time if another team comes up with more cash?

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

I was listening to Wyatt Fulton on Tide 100.9 at lunch today and he made the comment that we could see players being added to the portal up until midnight tonight because schools have 48 "business" hours to process a transfer portal request from a player. Since Saturday, Sunday and Monday were not business days that meant that if a player notified their school as late as 11:59 Friday night that they wanted to enter the portal, the school would have until 11:59 tonight to process it so that their name shows up on the transfer portal list. I understand that but he also said that a player could transfer after the end of the portal period by withdrawing from his school and enrolling at his new school and could play immediately as a walk-on non scholarship player. He said this is what the quarterback for Tulane did last year when he transferred from Brigham Young. My question to those of you that understand a lot more about the portal and NIL than I do is can that player receive NIL at his new school? I would assume he could and, if so, why would he care if he was on scholarship or not? Seems like this would make the portal transfer period a moot issue for most high value players. What is to stop them from transferring at any time if another team comes up with more cash?

On the first part, YES. School's technically have until midnight tonight to enter their players into the transfer portal. The player's had a deadline of Friday to put their name in, but schools could drag their feet if they chose to. It would be kinda petty to do so and I doubt many did it, but they could. Regardless, if the player was high profile, they'd have already announced on social media that they were going in anyway.

On the 2nd part, the loophole to transfer outside of the window... again, YES. I don't know all the particulars and some of it would be a case by case basis with how the players signed agreements read with their respective school, but the loophole is still there.

 

[Krimson]

You know that when you clone a being (human, pig, cow, chicken), they aren't cloned at adult status. Cloning would create a new being at birth. They would still need to mature and train to become fully "identical" to the original being.

Maybe it's to have so many they can rotate every week without ever having the same starting 5 all season

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

I’m okay with that. None of Indiana’s or Miami’s O linemen were All-SEC either.

This is mostly a disclaimer for when he gives up a sack on the 2nd series of week 1 and the fans meltdown and call him trash, we can point back to something that warned them that he wasn’t on the Outland watch list this past season.

 

[BamaFan334]

Maybe it's to have so many they can rotate every week without ever having the same starting 5 all season

Usually takes 10 weeks to gel these days. You know, with transfers, waivers, lawsuits, sympathy, 10th year seniors applying for AARP and Medicare and such.