Last week, we started our annual look at the the newcomers to Alabama’s football program with a breakdown of the Tide’s new offensive linemen. As an extension of that, moving on to the tight ends was a natural fit.
Nick Saban’s program here at Alabama has a long, storied history of not utilizing their tight ends in the passing game as much as fans want, yet the group generally has two regular contributors every single year.
In 2021, Cam Latu seemingly came out of nowhere after switching from being an edge rusher to become a mostly dependable blocker and was behind only Brock Bowers in terms of touchdowns from the TE position in the SEC.