It feels like the season just ended, but we’re already heading into spring practice season. The spring provides plenty of opportunities: early enrollees get their first taste of college football, veterans can lay claim to open positions and new coaches get their first chance to work with their units.

Who in the SEC West, both individuals and units, has the most to gain this spring? Let’s go team by team and take a look.

Alabama — Quarterbacks

For the second straight year, Alabama will be replacing its starting quarterback. The Crimson Tide appear to have a successor lined up this time, with Jacob Coker getting to go through spring practice this time around. He was unable to win the job last year after coming in for the start of fall practice, but with a full season on the bench he’ll be expected to take the reins this time. If Coker doesn’t show out in spring practice, he’ll have some heavy competition from David Cornwell, Blake Barnett and Cooper Bateman come fall.

Arkansas — Jeremiah Ledbetter and Hjalte Froholdt

After losing Trey Flowers and Darius Philon, Arkansas has some spots to fill along it’s defensive line, which was dominant in 2014. Ledbetter looks like he has the skills to play immediately after transferring from Hutchinson Community College and would make for an easy replacement for Flowers. Froholdt is a more interesting case, having just been introduced to football five years ago. The rapidly improving Dane could blossom into a dominant player in the middle of the line, and the spring practice reps will help him get there quicker.

Auburn — No. 2 receiver candidates

Duke Williams is back for a second go-round on the Plains, but running mates Sammie Coates and Quan Bray are gone. That leaves Auburn a bit short on experience amongst Jeremy Johnson’s targets. Ricardo Louis is back, but after him Melvin Ray and Marcus Davis had a combined 21 catches in 2014. Gus Malzahn will need to see growth from at least one of those players to make sure his new quarterback has someone outside of Duke to throw to.

LSU — Brandon Harris

It frustrated LSU fans to no end that Harris couldn’t get on the field ahead of an ineffective Anthony Jennings all throughout the 2014 season. Well, this spring Harris has a chance to claim the job for himself. No one quite knows why Harris couldn’t win the job last season, but having a full year under his belt to learn the playbook should be a boost for the rising sophomore.

Mississippi State — Ashton Shumpert and Brandon Holloway

Dan Mullen’s offense cranks out 1,000-yard rushers every year without fail. With Josh Robinson heading to the pros, Shumpert and Holloway are set to battle for the right to line up next to Dak Prescott in 2015. While both have the talent to earn snaps, it’s more than likely given Mullen’s history that one will take control of the job. Whichever one does so sets themselves up to be a star running the option with Dak.

Ole Miss — Offensive line

If there was a major weakness on the Rebels last year, it was offensive line. The situation got shakier when Laremy Tunsil went down with a broken leg and Drew Richmond decommitted from the recruiting class. Without those two, though, there will be plenty of opportunities in spring practice for the rest of the line to get reps and get more comfortable on the field.

Texas A&M — Defensive backs

John Chavis has his work cut out for him, and improvement on defense will likely start in the secondary. The Aggies graduated three of the four starters from the defensive backfield last year, so Chavis has more or less a blank slate to work with. JUCO transfer Justin Evans will have a chance to establish himself immediately at safety, while Chavis will figure out who will start on the back line with him (although that player might not be on campus yet) and across from De’Vante Harris. The quicker these guys can start to pick up Chavis’ scheme the better, as there’s nowhere to go but up.