Last week, we took a look at the Crimson Tide’s cornerbacks for the 2019 season. With the fluidity of the defensive backfield in today’s nickel and dime defenses, there’s often a significant overlap in the players who play safety and corner. Often times we see a starting safety will walk up to the line as a nickel corner and another safety will come into the game for dime packages, rather than having four true corners on the field at the same time.
For Alabama, only 4th year junior, Deionte Thompson turned pro after the 2018, so Alabama has one new starting safety to break in this season.