TUSCALOOSA — Entering the season, the concern around Alabama’s backfield was that the Crimson Tide would be without an established running back. Now, as the Tide prepares to move into the offseason, the new fear is that it might have too many.
Losing Heisman winner Derrick Henry as well as Kenyan Drake to last year’s draft, Alabama opened the season with sophomores Damien Harris and Bo Scarbrough as its two primary options at running back. The duo had combined for 261 yards and two touchdowns in 2015 and left Alabama head coach Nick Saban without a veteran option at the position for the first time since he took the job in 2007.