As the final gasping breath of fooball before a 5-month drought, the A-Day spring game is often a source of hyper-scrutiny where every positive takeaway about one player or position group means there’s a negative for the opposing group. It’s ultimately a zero-sum game, and Nick Saban warns us every year about reading too much into what happens.
So, we’re going to do just that.
The White team consisted of the first team offense and second team defense, while the Crimson was the first team defense and 2nd team offense. There was a huge glut of players missing for various reasons (12 of which are 2-deep depth chart players), so we got a good look at many younger players on both teams that otherwise we might have never seen.