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Alabama Football: Backfield Depth Continues To Decrease, Cook Dismissed

Usually, when a commit decides to early-enroll at a university, that’s the beginning of a plethora of great things to come. Unfortunately, for the Nick Saban and the Alabama football team, that isn’t the case when it comes to Desherrius Flowers.

Alabama announces that freshman RB Desherrius Flowers is ineligible this fall due to a “recently discovered initial eligibility issue”

— Cecil Hurt (@CecilHurt) June 17, 2015

Despite being an early-enrollee, because of a recently discovered eligibility issue, Flowers wasn’t going to be cleared to enroll in the fall. Multiple reports have come out stating he’ll transfer to to a junior college but it’s unknown where.