{"id":863257,"date":"2026-04-10T16:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T16:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/863257\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T16:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T16:16:16","slug":"alabama-football-spotlight-is-on-the-qb-battle-run-game-at-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/863257\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama football: Spotlight is on the QB battle, run game at A-Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">With Jam Miller out of eligibility and Richard Young transferring to Colorado, UA is looking for a star back. True freshman EJ Crowell has been out for much of the spring with an injury, but DeBoer said fellow freshman Trae\u2019Shawn Brown has looked impressive at times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">DeBoer also named a few returnees after the last scrimmage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI thought Kevin Riley, when he had seams to hit, he accelerated, showed some good burst,\u201d DeBoer said. \u201cHe\u2019s got a good knack in between slipping through and finding those holes at times. Daniel (Hill) I thought had a good week of practice. Probably didn\u2019t have as many opportunities to go hit the big ones today. That\u2019s not necessarily always on him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Throughout 2025, Alabama lacked big plays in the run game. Whether its one of the aforementioned returnees, AK Dear, or Brown, seeing some on A-Day would be an encouraging sign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Jam Miller out of eligibility and Richard Young transferring to Colorado, UA is looking for a star&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2400,7,49,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-863257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-alabama-crimson-tide-football","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116381311653301372","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863257","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=863257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}