Even if the calendar does not say so, it is summer in west Alabama. Summer workouts have begun for the 2018 Alabama football team. There are 17 summer-arriving players for the Crimson Tide and one more who will hopefully join the team before fall camp.
The latest of the arrivals will be freshman Josh Jobe. Jobe is being delayed by the need for some additional high school coursework. Alabama football fans had worried about Christian Barmore and Eyabi Anoma qualifying academically but both made it in time for summer work.
We are highlighting five newcomers, plus one more who has an outside chance to make the Crimson tide two-deep.