To close out our series of looking at all of Alabama’s incoming freshmen for this season, we’ll be breaking down the defensive backfield. The Tide lost both starting corners in Josh Jobe and Jalyn Armour-Davis at the end of the 2021 season, but return all four starters at safety, star, and money with Jordan Battle, DeMarcco Hellams, Brian Branch, and Malachi Moore. So while there is an opportunity to see the field in year 1 for some of these players, it’s going to be highly contested.
If you missed the previous installments for this recruiting class, here are the links to the other position groups covered so far:
All heights, weights, and rankings come from the 247Sports composite (and noted changes on the RollTide.