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How Levi Wallace went from a walk-on to a star at Alabama

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One of the most important pieces of Alabama’s No. 1-ranked defense played flag football during his first semester on campus in 2013.

Levi Wallace’s head was in his schoolwork and his heart was 1,500 miles away back then. His dream of one day playing for Nick Saban and the Crimson Tide was getting away from him. “I had a lot going on in my life,” he said, “so I was ready to let football go.”

To scratch that competitive itch, he participated in intramural sports. That is, until his father stepped in.

Walter Wallace didn’t raise his son to settle.