It may come as little surprise that the defenses took hold during Alabama’s spring game.

The White team, featuring Alabama’s first-team defense, beat the Crimson team, with the first-team offense, 7-3 in the Golden Flake A-Day Spring Game.

Here’s five takeaways from the last of Bama’s 15 spring practices:

The D looks gooooood.

Don’t expect much of a dropoff even with the departure of several players to the NFL.

Linebacker Rashaan Evans had 12 tackles in the first half of the spring game alone (17 for the game), and at this point he’s just second string. Saban said prior to the game it was “really important” to get Evans plenty of reps Saturday, so the coach may have plenty of playing time in store for the junior this season.

Although senior linebacker Tim Williams didn’t fill out the stat sheet, finishing with two sacks and three quarterback hurries, he was constantly blowing up plays, leading to Saban joking about him ruining the offensive schemes during a halftime interview with ESPN.

Ryan Anderson found himself in the backfield constantly, too.

Overall, the two offenses only gained 428 yards.

We’ve got ourselves a QB competition.

While coach Nick Saban has touted Cooper Bateman this spring, he also noted that freshman sensation Jalen Hurts is in the competition for starter. That competition only got hotter during A-Day.

While Bateman missed a number of deep throws, going 9-for-24 with one interception overall, Hurts showed his multi-dimensional ability with the run. If not for the black-jersey, one-hand-tag aspect of the spring game, we really might have seen Hurts fly. The 6-foot-2, 210-pounder also demonstrated his arm ability, tossing the game’s lone touchdown, to wide receiver Derek Kief in the fourth quarter. Hurts finished 11-for-15 with the TD and no interceptions.

The running game remains strong.

Damien Harris gained 114 yards on 20 carries, but got nearly a century mark in the first half alone. The first-team defense bottled up Bo Scarbrough, holding the sophomore to 22 yards on nine carries – but remember, this is Bama’s first-team defense we’re talking about.

Scarbrough and Harris both had strong springs overall, and look to pack the one-two running punch Bama has grown accustomed to under Saban.

Struggles at placekicker.

Maybe Adam Griffith will get those shanks out of his system earlier this year, because he had a heck of a rough A-Day game.

Making only a chip shot 21-yard field goal and an extra point while missing kicks from 36, 47, 42 and 54, the senior struggled at Bryant-Denny on Saturday.

But optimistic Bama fans will remember that Griffith couldn’t hit the broad side of an airport hangar to start the 2015 season either. He began 0-4 before finishing the season 23-32, making second-team All-SEC and capping the year with the most beautiful onside kick a fan in crimson is likely to ever see in helping the team win the 2015 national title.

Don’t sweat it.

Saban was asked, as always, about the takeaways from A-Day, his 10th as head coach at the Capstone. He noted pitting his boys against each other results in a number of “mismatches you can’t really overcome.”

“I don’t think any conclusions can be drawn about anything that happened today,” he said.

Nonetheless, the scrimmage will continue to be heavily dissected, and fans likely didn’t see anything this spring that indicates Bama won’t be in contention again this year in the SEC.