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The event dates to 1985, meaning the Crimson Tide broke a four-decade streak. Alabama did have wide receiver Ryan Williams and Kadyn Proctor on the first-team offense, but no first-team defensive players for the first time in the event’s history.
Alabama head coach Kalen DeBoer gave an update on the Crimson Tide's starting quarterback outlook at SEC media days.
Missouri football head coach Eli Drinkwitz is not a Nick Saban disciple, but isn’t afraid to pull from the lexicon of his former SEC foe. During SEC Media Days last week, Drinkwitz quoted Saban’s famous “rat poison” phrase when asked about the Tigers’ recent success.
Alabama already made the rounds at SEC Media Days on Wednesday, July 16, but there was still plenty said about the Crimson Tide on Day 4 of the event at the Omni Atlanta Hotel. To end things on Thursday,
Day 3 of SEC Media Days happened on Wednesday, where Alabama head coach Kalen DeBoer spoke to media members and reflected on his first season with the Crimson Tide, while expressing the belief of his current program headed in to this college football year.
For DeBoer, media days marks the unofficial start of Year 2 in Tuscaloosa after a 9-4 campaign a year ago following Nick Saban's retirement. It's also his first chance to talk about what he's most looking forward heading into fall camp after a promising spring, position battles, what he and the program hope to improve on, and more.
Saban rumors have been swirling around SEC media days since former Alabama coach Greg McElroy mentioned the possibility on his radio show.
One of the Crimson Tide's leaders this upcoming season, here is a look at everything that Alabama inside linebacker Deontae Lawson said during 2025 SEC football media days. "I think we all just have to be bought in. I think that started right when the bowl game ended, and we just all had to come together."
The unofficial start of the 2025 football season begins in Atlanta July 16. What are the biggest questions Alabama football faces?
ATLANTA— Alabama head football coach Kalen DeBoer and Crimson Tide players were finally heard from at the College Football Hall of Fame on Wednesday during SEC