Healed Alabama Crimson Tide players and returning players should make the 2019 Alabama football defense better than last season. Better that is, if someone steps up at nose to replace Quinnen Williams.
Crimson Tide fans are mostly realistic in knowing no one on the 2019 roster has the physical and mental tools to match Quinnen’s performance last season. As great as Da’Ron Payne and Dalvin Tomlinson were as Alabama football interior defensive linemen, Quinnen’s quickness made him the best pass rusher and run-disrupter of the three.
The traditional role of a Nick Saban nose tackle is to play multiple gaps either side of center, clog the middle and demand double-teams.