Former University of Alabama quarterbacks Blake Barnett and Cooper Bateman expressed frustration with how Crimson Tide head coach Nick Saban handled the QB situation last season.
On Tuesday, Kyle Bonagura of ESPN.com passed along comments from the signal-callers who took a backseat to true freshman Jalen Hurts early in the 2016 campaign. Barnett said he thinks that was Saban's plan "all along."
"According to him, I was their guy," he said. "Once Jalen went in, I was expecting it. But then he went out on the next series, the next series and the next series.