{"id":851189,"date":"2026-04-03T12:26:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/851189\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T12:26:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:26:03","slug":"alabama-football-keelon-russell-vs-austin-mack-competition-still-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/851189\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama football: Keelon Russell vs Austin Mack competition still close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Experience matters to Alabama offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb. He doesn\u2019t deny that. But there\u2019s something different from the younger players who have joined the Crimson Tide. There\u2019s a level of \u201ccommitment and urgency,\u201d a \u201ctype of unity\u201d that makes young players veterans quickly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThere\u2019s nobody trying to budge in line, so to speak,\u201d Grubb said. \u201cThey\u2019re 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Experience matters to Alabama offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb. He doesn\u2019t deny that. But there\u2019s something different from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[2400,35580,7],"class_list":{"0":"post-851189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-alabama-crimson-tide-football","9":"tag-alabama-crimson-tide-basketball","10":"tag-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116340771373405912","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}