🏈 Tide returns to the practice field on Monday

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One of the first players outside linebackers coach Lance Thompson sought out after he returned to Alabama’s coaching staff from Tennessee was veteran inside linebacker Nico Johnson.

“He was asking me what type of talent he had,” Johnson said of their conversation back in January.

Thompson knows the challenge ahead for the Crimson Tide’s linebacking corps, which loses three of its four starters. Courtney Upshaw is going to be a first-round draft pick. Dont’a Hightower could be picked late in the first round or early in the second. Jerrell Harris, likely a late-round pick, will have a chance to make an NFL roster.

All three departed linebackers create a lot of opportunity for players Johnson said have the same talent, but just need the chance to play.

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