Tua or Jalen? That question was all the rage from January up until September. But what if the question really should have been “Tua and Jalen???”
If you didn’t ask that to yourself, don’t feel bad. Most everyone assumed it was a dichotomous choice— one to which the consequences of either would be season altering. In the realm of mortal football coaches, that would be a perfectly acceptable and reasonable way of viewing things. But Nick Saban is not a mortal football coach. He went beyond the “or” and created an “and.”
In two of Alabama’s last three games, we’ve seen both Tua Tagovailoa and Jalen Hurts trot out onto the field at the same time in back-to-back plays.