🏈 Spring Practice 2026: Grubb: "No competition at left tackle."

[TerryP]

Looks like Wommack did not participate in offseason conditioning drills.

I would hope...

 

[alabama mike]

It is difficult to get much of a read on anyone until they get through the acclamation process the first few days. Shorts and helmets right now.

 

[TerryP]

It is difficult to get much of a read on anyone until they get through the acclamation process the first few days. Shorts and helmets right now.

Do you remember the before and after shots of Beamon from last season? I posted the images last year but it might be hard to find through the SE. It was dramatic.

 

[alabama mike]

Do you remember the before and after shots of Beamon from last season? I posted the images last year but it might be hard to find through the SE. It was dramatic.

Vaguely, my memory is not what it once was a few years ago. Old age.

 

[TerryP]

Vaguely, my memory is not what it once was a few years ago. Old age.

A few years ago I figured out how every picture uploaded would go to the gallery here. I didn't want to use the space. IF I had...

 

[Justneedme81]

Things with starting groups I'm not worried about this spring, part one.

Jimmy, on the "Locked Down" podcast for the Tide, puts Brown as the #1 guy on Bama's roster this fall. (I respect Jimmy's sources while knowing he tends to be hyperbolic.) Brown is featured on one of their latest shows. He's part of a starting secondary that consists of Hubbard to his left, then Sabb, bookmarked by Dijon. (Red is floating around somewhere.)

Last year was deep. They only lost Domani and DeShawn Jones.

I like how they rotate players on. Depth is there as well. Lot of experience back there. Backside of defense shouldn't be any concern for anyone this spring period.

 

[BamaFan334]

I like how they rotate players on. Depth is there as well. Lot of experience back there. Backside of defense shouldn't be any concern for anyone this spring period.

Gonna be tough throwing over 6'2 and 6'4 this Fall. Both corners have length and showed last year they would be forces.

 

[Justneedme81]

Read the comments. I'm one of them.

 

[TerryP]

Read the comments. I'm one of them.

This you?

 

[Justneedme81]

This you?

Nah lol

 

[TerryP]

It is difficult to get much of a read on anyone until they get through the acclamation process the first few days. Shorts and helmets right now.

Do you remember the before and after shots of Beamon from last season? I posted the images last year but it might be hard to find through the SE. It was dramatic.

I mentioned the secondary a bit yesterday. Coincidentally, the name I've seen/heard the most since practice #1 is from that group: Edwards.

 

[Rolltide24]

This you?

Ouch!

 

[TerryP]

Ouch!

If it was, he'd get a hat tip from me.

 

[Nothing_But_A_Winner00]

I haven't read the guy, but he has a voice for still photography from the press conferences I've heard.

 

[Nothing_But_A_Winner00]

 

[Nothing_But_A_Winner00]

 

[RTB X Bot]

"There’s some guys that are still limited or out, really going back to the season. So, nothing new, nothing new that’s happened in practice the first couple days," Alabama head coach Kalen Deboer said. "Zeebo (Jah-Marien Latham) will be out for the spring. Bray (Hubbard) will be limited, limited contact, just coming off of stuff from the fall. London Simmons will be out for the spring. (William) Sanders will be out for the spring.”

The only new addition from the report last week about spring injuries was seventh-year player Jah-marien Latham, or "Zeebo" as Coach DeBoer called him. Latham started the 2025 season as Alabama's starter at wolf, Alabama's outside linebacker position, in a 31-17 loss to Florida State in week one. He continued to rotate on the Tide's defensive front against ULM and Wisconsin before suffering a season-ending neck injury in practice before Alabama's 24-21 victory over Georgia in week five.

Safety Bray Hubbard will be limited after last season, opening the door for younger defensive backs Zavier Mincey and Ivan Taylor to get reps with the first-team defense after both saw action in all 15 games last season for Alabama.

London Simmons started two games for Alabama last season but played in all 15 for the Crimson Tide. His absence should give Alabama a good look at what the depth in the defensive line room looks like, likely led by Jeremiah Beaman, who started one game before suffering a season-ending ACL tear, and Edric Hill, who started three games in 2025 and played in all 15.

 

[Nothing_But_A_Winner00]

 

[TerryP]

Long video there.

Early reports ... Austin his having a good camp. Sitting behind a guy who was making some pretty good reads while in his second year in the system ... now he's in year three.

 

[Justneedme81]

The rebuild of Alabama offensive line is underway: ‘Guys are hungry’

Alabama football saw six of seven players depart who saw significant snaps as starters on the offensive line in 2025.

www.al.com

With competition underway across the group, DeBoer said the plan is to try to keep guys focused on one position rather than multiple.


“There is some versatility with a number of guys,” DeBoer said. “That’s nice, but you also don’t want to get fallen into the trap where you’re moving guys around and now that continuity — that familiarity that I’m talking about — it’s something that you don’t see, and now you’re not making the strides we want. So, try to get guys in spots, try to keep it consistent here.

Now, that's interesting given how we rotated on OL so much last year and now he comes out and say this? It sounds like he wasn't big fan of rotating players last year.