Nick Saban announces LB Chris Allen suffered knee injury, out for season
Alabama will be without another linebacker this season, coach Nick Saban announced on Saturday.
Chris Allen, who played in seven games as a freshman last year, had six tackles, two quarterback hurries and a forced fumble. Allen’s loss will hurt Alabama’s depth at that position as he was in line to be a top backup at outside linebacker.
Saban added that the team is already too thin at both linebacker positions to move players around.
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The former 4-star recruit from Baton Rouge, La. is the second player at that position to suffer a season-ending injury following Terrell Lewis’ torn ACL during the summer.
Saban says LB Chris Allen suffered a knee injury that required surgery and he'll be out for the season, also confirmed RT Matt Womack stepped on somebody's foot the other day & broke his foot again, will likely be out 4-6 weeks.
— Alex Byington (@_AlexByington) August 18, 2018
