🏈 Alabama football Team Captains for 2025 season

Justneedme81 said:
Team captains:

Parker Brailsford
Tim Keenan III
Deontae Lawson
Ty Simpson
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Four very deserving players and the good news is there are others that would be just as deserving.

Simpson- A guy that shunned CFB norms and actually waited his turn to be the starter. He could have easily bolted and played earlier elsewhere. But he stayed, never bitched, worked hard, improved, matured, and earned the job. A guy like that earns respect from his peers.

Brailsford- Came to UA with the new staff... was already a day 1 starter and a good one. Was mentored by Tyler Booker, who showed him you can be nice off the field and nasty on it and that in the SEC, the latter was not optional.

Lawson- A (rare) repeat captain, which says a lot. He'd be in some NFL training camp right now if not for that knee injury against Michigan to close out the season. But, he's battled back from it and now leads the defense again.

Keenan- Another player that could have gone pro but elected to stay, which in this case will be his 5th year. The guys love him and respect him.

There's only room for 4 captains, but DeBoer's Unity Council will be stacked with guys of high character this season...
 
Copying and paste my comment from tides fan

Some of you don't like the fact Alabama named the captains early and I understand why though.

Honestly for me, I like this move for several reasons. It set the tone and establish the leadership early. It allows the team to finally say, "Hey we're looking at those guys who's named captain for leadership."

It's not just the season, but it's what goes on off the field that's being a decided factor. They are the one who set the standard for effort, discipline, and positive attitude during offseason training, spring ball, and pre-season workouts. It's them who's been showing out.
It's an opportunity to establish the communication and leadership early and before the season. Every teams handle things differently.

I don't care about what happened last year, I don't care about who was named captain. If the players and coaches voted them .. that's their right and I will respect the decision and we just need to move on from that. Some of the comments regarding those two players wanting to be kicked off team, it's unnecessary and uncalled for.

Let's support this year captains. They definitely earned it. I'm excited for this season. God bless y'all!
 
Justneedme81 said:
Copying and paste my comment from tides fan

Some of you don't like the fact Alabama named the captains early and I understand why though.

Honestly for me, I like this move for several reasons. It set the tone and establish the leadership early. It allows the team to finally say, "Hey we're looking at those guys who's named captain for leadership."

It's not just the season, but it's what goes on off the field that's being a decided factor. They are the one who set the standard for effort, discipline, and positive attitude during offseason training, spring ball, and pre-season workouts. It's them who's been showing out.
It's an opportunity to establish the communication and leadership early and before the season. Every teams handle things differently.

I don't care about what happened last year, I don't care about who was named captain. If the players and coaches voted them .. that's their right and I will respect the decision and we just need to move on from that. Some of the comments regarding those two players wanting to be kicked off team, it's unnecessary and uncalled for.

Let's support this year captains. They definitely earned it. I'm excited for this season. God bless y'all!
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100% agree. Voted on by the players, so I'm good with it. Gotta have those guys that everyone looks to during the season. Reward them with that accolade. Not a lot moves players these days outside of money, but with the type of bond I'm hearing from folks on here that this staff likes to build with its players and those player's mindsets, it means something to have that "C" on their jersey. I will say if they want to make it three guys to start the season and give room for a fourth to be voted in after the season with a body of work I'd be fine with that as well.
 
Brandon Van de Graaff said:
I don't have too strong of an opinion either way, but if pushed, I'd prefer captains be names after the season. But I'd guess most of the hand wringing out there is just a product of fans who don't like the break from tradition. I will say, I do like the block "C" patch on the captains wear onrotheir jersey.
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Like you I don't have a strong opinion one way or another about when it's announced. It's not news: it's ceremonial. It's an award. After all, those leaders chosen are part of the leadership council already. It's not like the team doesn't know leaders.

I have an opinion about part of your opinion. People will say it's a strong opinion but that's meant to emphasize the wisdom behind the astute nature of the opinion. In the end, it'll be a compliment.

Officially naming the faces of the program at this time? It fits perfectly with how you describe how the staff is building the roster.
Brandon Van de Graaff said:
.... but he certainly puts in the effort to build strong relationships with the guys (compared to some previous/other staffs).
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He's unique because of his situation. Parker is a guy that worked on building relationships when he got to town and because of his story he instantly became a teacher.

Ty has been through four OC's. The players have commented on it...he's "ground it out." (Stacey, a ""needle mover when you follow rosters) He's earned the role.

Lawson is ... I hate using the term repeat, but he was a 'captain' in the winter clearinghouse.

Overton is where you can get an opinion. I thought he was on and off again last season and the old "bringing it every play" is what he needs this fall. But, he may be the best example of why you are a fan of captains being named, now.

Their leadership roles have already been established because of the effort to build strong relationships inside the building. If that's successful we have a program that's introducing a group of four guys and saying, "This is Alabama football: 202_."

@BamaFan334 this also goes back to what we were talking about this week; how some things about this fall have lost their luster while others have been "needle movers."

I don't know how many times we've mentioned the attitude, cohesiveness (add a bunch of more words if you want) in the locker room...different things around the same subject being pointed out before the first bead of sweat was broke before spring camp. Despite the lack of doubt when it was being heard about and we were taking about, and in spite of somethings being little tid-bits, Brandon's "summation of where they are" has all those little bullet points.

I feel I've got a pretty good idea of what they are going to look like. Barring something unforeseen happening that's what I want...to see the potential and it's the potential to make a title run.

Conversely, among the few things we really haven't talked about is one of the things that could come back to bite this team in the ass. Is the question legitimate.

Do we know any more about the kicking game than we did before spring camp? There's some hyperbole there...truth as well.
 
TerryP said:
Like you I don't have a strong opinion one way or another about when it's announced. It's not news: it's ceremonial. It's an award. After all, those leaders chosen are part of the leadership council already. It's not like the team doesn't know leaders.

I have an opinion about part of your opinion. People will say it's a strong opinion but that's meant to emphasize the wisdom behind the astute nature of the opinion. In the end, it'll be a compliment.

Officially naming the faces of the program at this time? It fits perfectly with how you describe how the staff is building the roster.

He's unique because of his situation. Parker is a guy that worked on building relationships when he got to town and because of his story he instantly became a teacher.

Ty has been through four OC's. The players have commented on it...he's "ground it out." (Stacey, a ""needle mover when you follow rosters) He's earned the role.

Lawson is ... I hate using the term repeat, but he was a 'captain' in the winter clearinghouse.

Overton is where you can get an opinion. I thought he was on and off again last season and the old "bringing it every play" is what he needs this fall. But, he may be the best example of why you are a fan of captains being named, now.

Their leadership roles have already been established because of the effort to build strong relationships inside the building. If that's successful we have a program that's introducing a group of four guys and saying, "This is Alabama football: 202_."

@BamaFan334 this also goes back to what we were talking about this week; how some things about this fall have lost their luster while others have been "needle movers."

I don't know how many times we've mentioned the attitude, cohesiveness (add a bunch of more words if you want) in the locker room...different things around the same subject being pointed out before the first bead of sweat was broke before spring camp. Despite the lack of doubt when it was being heard about and we were taking about, and in spite of somethings being little tid-bits, Brandon's "summation of where they are" has all those little bullet points.

I feel I've got a pretty good idea of what they are going to look like. Barring something unforeseen happening that's what I want...to see the potential and it's the potential to make a title run.

Conversely, among the few things we really haven't talked about is one of the things that could come back to bite this team in the ass. Is the question legitimate.

Do we know any more about the kicking game than we did before spring camp? There's some hyperbole there...truth as well.
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I'm hoping it can help me buy back into the sport a little bit. I nag and run my mouth, but will support my alma mater any day. I will admit I am looking forward to watching Ty and these new guys step in and see if they can carry that torch so many proud ones before them did to help build this thing.
 

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