He is in a developmental position, but Alabama football has a special player for the future at tight end.
Bryan Ellis, a former quarterback at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, was an offensive coordinator, quarterbacks coach, and wide receivers coach at Western Kentucky (2019-21) and Georgia Southern (2022-23). The 35-year-old from Macon (Ga.) is now the Crimson Tide’s tight ends coach. Ellis has a talented room that needs to be involved in the passing game.
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CJ Dippre is the leader in the room and Josh Cuevas will quickly show how talented he is, but the Tide has a second-year player that Ellis says has the ‘best hands’ in the room.