Experience matters to Alabama offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb. He doesn’t deny that. But there’s something different from the younger players who have joined the Crimson Tide. There’s a level of “commitment and urgency,” a “type of unity” that makes young players veterans quickly.
“There’s nobody trying to budge in line, so to speak,” Grubb said. “They’re all trying to own that. And I think that that part, you just got to build on that. You got to let that catch fire. And, you know, let these guys, their youth and energy and how they want to play, their physical style, is something that you got to build off of.”
It’s why a player like Ryan Coleman-Williams, a 19-year-old junior, is the elder statesman, one who learned behind players like Germie Bernard and one who is ready to set the example himself.nd only Ole Miss and Vanderbilt.