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Outlook of Alabama football’s 2025 running back recruiting efforts

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Alabama football’s running back recruiting efforts are on pace to possibly get really interesting over the next several weeks with signing day coming up in December.

The Crimson Tide currently have verbal commitments from two 2025 running backs in Akylin Dear and Anthony Rogers.

Dear is solely focused on Alabama, and his recruitment is considered close at the moment, pointing to his relationship with Tide’s running back coach Robert Gillespie as a big reason why he is still locked in with Alabama.

“Coach G,” Dear told Touchdown Alabama in August. “Coach G from down south where I am at.