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A-List No. 9: Ties to Bear Bryant just part of the story for Tide commitment Paul Tyson

The A-List counts down AL.com's top 15 senior football prospects in the state.

The fault line that divides this football-mad state cuts through Hewitt-Trussville's field house. In one room is head coach Josh Floyd, the Gus Malzahn acolyte who once starred for Auburn's head honcho at small Arkansas high school. In another is Paul Tyson , the budding four-star quarterback better known as great-grandson of Bear Bryant, the patron saint of the Alabama Crimson Tide.

On this day, they are here waiting out a thunderstorm that has disrupted their last practice before the start of school.