The Alabama quarterback battle is gearing up once again as summer practices approach. So far, Tua Tagovailoa is the favorite to land the starting job, but he was injured for most of the spring.

Meanwhile, incumbent Jalen Hurts had a disappointing spring, but based on the past two seasons, can’t be counted out just yet.

Florida Atlantic coach Lane Kiffin has unique insight into both players, as he was Hurts’s offensive coordinator at Alabama in 2016. He also helped recruit Tagovailoa to Tuscaloosa, so he knows what the young quarterback can do.

On Thursday, Kiffin joined “Marty Smith’s America” podcast and weighed in on the quarterback battle, saying the Crimson Tide are in a great position heading into 2018 (quotes via 247Sports):

“They’re in a great position,” Kiffin said. “Everybody in the country would like to have it. People say it’s a bad thing. It’s a great thing. You have two dynamic players with dynamic skills that are in their first and second year of college … which is why everybody thought we wouldn’t be able to get Tua with Jalen coming off an SEC Offensive Player of the Year season, and Tua still came, which you saw his competitiveness.”

Kiffin also raved about Tagovailoa’s throwing ability, relating a story of his accuracy from a quarterback competition at a camp:

“Oh, top one percent,” Kiffin said. “At this camp there was this quarterback competition thing, and all the top college guys around the country were there. He just picks up the ball, (the target is) about 40 yards away, he’s got to throw kind of horizontally, like he did in the championship game, into this net thing that a normal guy might get one 1-for-5. He picks up two and gets 2-for-2. That’s just how he is.

“When he was in high school, people compared him to Steve Young. Just a unique ability.”

Hurts is a better runner than Tagovailoa, but Tagovailoa’s arm led the Tide to the national championship last season after he came on in relief in the second half against Georgia.

It’ll be an interesting decision, but it’s a decision Kiffin said he’d love to have to make.