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Alabama Football: Expect a stable of running backs in 2021

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Alabama football will use all of their running backs in 2021.

There have been three different ways that Alabama football has handled the running back room. They prefer having a duo. This stems back to when Trent Richardson played behind Mark Ingram and Eddie Lacy backed Richardson.

When they don’t have two equally talented running backs, they rely on one back heavily. Najee Harris was this back in 2020. Although Brian Robinson got quality reps, Harris played as many snaps as he could. This also happened when Derrick Henry won the Heisman Trophy.