RJ Young breaks down the Alabama QB competition, projects starter
RJ Young is out with his break down of the Alabama quarterback competition between Jalen Milroe, Ty Simpson and Tyler Buchner.
Young points out that this is interesting because of the uniqueness of an open QB competition at Alabama for the first time since 2016.
“That’s not exactly how Nick Saban likes to do this, he likes having the quarterback position settled by the spring,” Young said. “It was very clear that come 2021, everybody knew that Bryce Young was going to be the guy come the end of the spring.”
Young sees this as a very even competition because Milroe and Buchner offer the same set of skills.
“Both are lethal in the open field, both have issues throwing the ball to teams that don’t wear their jersey,” he said. “Both have issues putting the ball on the floor.”
Buchner is also somewhat injury-prone, Young said.
Young sees Simpson as more of a “polished passer,” and he could be the guy to hit on deep play-action passes.
“I think they’ve got good options there, I’m just interested,” he said. “I think it’s going to be Milroe,” but added that the one game he started last year was a near disaster because of Milroe’s turnovers.
“Now you’ve got what I think are three guys competing for the job.” ?@RJ_Young evaluates the QB Derby in Tuscaloosa ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/V1qZamO4FG
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Milroe ? Most Tide fans are hoping not. We saw his play in 2022 & were not impressed. Of course he can run, but at times passing is necessary.
I agree with you. No Milroe, please.
I bet the Georgia coaching staff could develop Jalen Milroe into a championship level quarterback. Look at what they did for Stetson Bennett. Alabama lacks coaching development to help Jalen Milroe get any better.
Your inferiority complex is huge. Good luck with that.
You didn’t see how bad Stetson Bennett was 2 years ago, on the same level as Milroe.
We did see that. We played your Bulldogs. He wasn’t developed to be an outstanding QB but was just plugged in when everyone else was either injured or not getting the job done. Dream on in that dream world you live in.
The mother f ucker was on his way to being 30 years old. It was about time he learned something you s hit heel!
LSUSMC………Are you certain you are not an Alabama fan, pretending to be an LSU fan????? Once again I don’t get it. WHY WOULD ANY GEORGIA FAN HAVE AN INFERIORITY COMPLEX???
Makes me think somebody might just have a STUPIDITY COMPLEX!!!! Georgia fans are excited. We know we are ruling college football!!!! WE ARE JUST GIVING BACK ALL THE TROLLING, THAT HAS BEEN GIVEN TO US ALL THESE YEARS!!!!
PS. Why would any fan who’s team just went back to back. After dominating 99% of everyone since Kirby got here! Why have an INFERIORITY COMPLEX??? To me this is funny!!! Sounds more like THE BIT DOG CRYING THE LOUDEST!!! And I know exactly who bit you!!!!!! LOL
Wanna know who got bit? Just listen to the rival fans crying INFERIORITY COMPLEX!!!!! To those fans. Remember this for me. GEORGIA IS CURRENTLY RANKED #2 IN THE 2024 RECRUITING CLASS AND PROJECTED TO HAVE THE TOP CLASS OF ALL TIME!!!!! BETTER THAN THAT A&M CLASS SABAN WAS SOOOOOOOOOO ANGRY ABOUT!!!! BETTER THAN SABAN’S BEST CLASS!!!!
I’m not saying it. The 247 experts are predicting it!!!!!! Georgia is currently ranked #1 in 2025 with 5 commits, 4 of which are 5 STAR RECRUITS!!!!!! Yep 4 out of 5 recruits are 5 stars. Unless its gotten better since I last looked!!!
So back to back national championships that I PREDICTED!!! Georgia is currently ranked #1 and the favorite to 3-peat!!! And apparently Georgia is going to run away with recruiting the next 2 years minimum!!!!
If anyone is a bama fan it’s you you take the time to read and comment on every Bama article, they sell those house divided tags
LSUSMC………Are you certain you are not an Alabama fan, pretending to be an LSU fan????? Once again I don’t get it. WHY WOULD ANY GEORGIA FAN HAVE AN INFERIORITY COMPLEX???
Makes me think somebody might just have a STUPIDITY COMPLEX!!!! Georgia fans are excited. We know we are ruling college football!!!! WE ARE JUST GIVING BACK ALL THE TROLLING, THAT HAS BEEN GIVEN TO US ALL THESE YEARS!!!!
PS. Why would any fan who’s team just went back to back. After dominating 99% of everyone since Kirby got here! Why have an INFERIORITY COMPLEX??? To me this is funny!!! Sounds more like THE BIT DOG CRYING THE LOUDEST!!! And I know exactly who bit you!!!!!! LOL
Wanna know who got bit? Just listen to the rival fans crying INFERIORITY COMPLEX!!!!! To those fans. Remember this for me. GEORGIA IS CURRENTLY RANKED #2 IN THE 2024 RECRUITING CLASS AND PROJECTED TO HAVE THE TOP CLASS OF ALL TIME!!!!! BETTER THAN THAT A&M CLASS SABAN WAS SOOOOOOOOOO ANGRY ABOUT!!!! BETTER THAN SABAN’S BEST CLASS!!!!
I’m not saying it. The 247 experts are predicting it!!!!!! Georgia is currently ranked #1 in 2025 with 5 commits, 4 of which are 5 STAR RECRUITS!!!!!! Yep 4 out of 5 recruits are 5 stars. Unless its gotten better since I last looked!!!
So back to back national championships that I PREDICTED!!! Georgia is currently ranked #1 and the favorite to 3-peat!!! And apparently Georgia is going to run away with recruiting the next 2 years minimum!!!!
Alabama fans and the SDS version of Gomer Pyle all say. Georgia fans are insecure or have inferiority complexes! I say THE BIT DOGS are all crying the loudest!!!!!
And I take full blame because it’s MY BIG DAWGS THAT BIT THEM!!!! When you see the Georgia bulldawgs your gonna see the bulldawgs fight!!!!!
PS. But ya ain’t seen a thing until you’ve seen those bulldawgs bite!!!!!
HUNKER DOWN HARRY DAWGS!!!!!!!
Negan
Such a goof.
Yeah, sure, amazing that all their most recent QBs are in the NFL. No development at all.
Silly comment.
JTF……Hurts was nearly destroyed at Alabama. OU developed him!!! Tua came in as one of the top 5 star QB recruits. Mac Jones was talented and developed for YEARS under Kitten and Sark! As for Tua. He sat behind Hurts the entire season until Hurts was totally completely shutdown by Georgia. A desperate half crazed Saban switched QBs in the second half and the officials helped. Thus Tua was born!!!!!
All that so-called Alabama development seems to have more to do with generational receivers, than QB development!!! Receivers like Calvin Ridley, Henry Ruggs, Jerry Jeudy, Jaylen Waddell, Devante Smith, John Metchie & Jameson Williams!!!! WHO ALL PLAYED ABOUT THE SAME TIME! ALABAMA ALWAYS HAD 4, SOMETIMES 5 OF THESE GUYS ON THE FIELD AT THE SAME TIME!!!!! And a bunch of other 5 star wide receivers like A Hall that transferred. When Saban decided to tamper with Burton at Georgia rather than playing his own guys!!!!!
HUGE MONUMENTAL MISTAKE!!!!!
Give Fromm and Stetson Bennett those receivers and both would have been first round picks!!!!! Georgia would have won 4 nattys since 2017!!!!!
PS. Saban hasn’t developed a single QB or receiver. That was all Lane Kiffen and Sark! And like it or not BOB!!!
ALABAMA’S RECEIVERS ARE STILL HIGHLY RATED!!!!!!!!!!!
Negan
This is how we know Negan knows absolutely nothing of college football. You act like the head coach is the only one spending all the time with these players. What do you think the OC is doing? The QB coach? Georgia had a great OC that helped develop their QBs, as did Alabama. The head coach acts like a CEO and brings talented staff members in to coach the different groups. Your ignorance and lack of knowledge is very apparent with your comments.
I agree with AFan.
Milroe? Doubtful.
I think it will be Buchner until he either gets hurt or Simpson is ready. Maybe Milroe surprises, but has hasn’t shown much yet.
I seriously doubt Buchner is going to be the guy. He’s got 118 passes under his belt with a result of 6 TDs and 8 INTs. Hooker and Young had 7 combined INTs last season on 709 attempts and that resulted in 59 TDs. That’s against vastly superior competition to what he was seeing at ND. I think Milroe will be the starter because he has the on field experience and has been in the system. Simpson could be the guy just as easily as the other two
I hope it’s Milroe. He’s not very good and his upside doesn’t seem great. I haven’t seen any Bama fans supporting him.
I hope it’s Milroe as well. He’s like a less athletic Anthony Richardson. He is fast though. I truly believe Saban is in desperation mode when he brought Buchner to compete for the job. Bama is known for elite talent and to have basically clones in place for when guys leave. This year seems different.
I bet you both hoped Jake Coker got the Bama QB job back in 2015 as well.
You’d lose that bet. It’s not like Coker carried that team to the title. That was Henry. As a Bama fan, you should know that. Coker was the 4th rated passer in the conference that season. Bama had the top rated passer this past season and that didn’t work out so well. Coker had a much better supporting cast. That’s not the case now. They could still get to the top, but referencing Coker isn’t helping anything.
Milroe does not have to be Tua or Bryce Young to win a NC. Coker did it with a great running game. If you saw Haynes in the Spring game you would know that. The defense will be much better. The games lost last year will be at home and we both know Saban’s record in revenge games. Hope your teams are as over-confident as you two are.
You’re talking about 2015 like it was yesterday. And, you can’t really believe that Haynes is ready to be Henry. Or, maybe you can.
Donk is a delusional Bama fan. He thinks that anybody that mentions Bama in any capacity is obsessed. That is by far his favorite word. For some reason he just can’t see what everybody else sees. This current Bama roster is nothing like that of years past. 17 penalties in a single game?? Bama from a decade ago would barely get that many in a season.
Saban is the greatest football coach of all time. Not too proud to say that out loud. It’s unbelievable what he’s done. Personally I wish he had done it somewhere else but it is what it is. His time at the top is coming to an end. He will still field a really good football team. No doubt about that. Without BY last season, Bama easily could have been 8-4, if not worse. You lost a lot of top tier talent which isn’t new but you don’t seem to have the prototypical copy and paste players ready to step up that Bama is known for having. The development seems to be falling off.
vfl, that’s it in a nutshell. a good number of bama fans continue to reference the past as an indication of the present and future. those bama teams aren’t suiting up in 2023. instead, we’ll see a team potentially relying on their third qb option from the transfer portal after the first two declined, a true fresh at rb who apparently embarrassed his defensive teammates in a spring game and without the two leaders from last year’s team.
bama will still be a good team, but they won’t be elite…far from it.
PTheRicker
They aren’t going to like this but in a lot of people’s eyes, they are in the same tier as TN right now. Georgia is in a league of their own at tier one and tier two is TN, LSU, and Bama. TN still has a lot of work to do but progress is being made. Finally have some elite recruits putting us in their top 3 or top 5 schools. That’s not too bad when most the other options in those lists have won an NC or two in the past 10 years while TN was a raging dumpster fire.
What is funny is the constant trolling of Bama. Don’t see you guys living on Miss State articles. I don’t live to comment on articles about your teams that have nothing to do with Bama. Now why is that? Could it be because Bama has caused you so much pain. Bama lost to your teams last year but does not make me live on articles about your teams. You will not find me on articles about the QB situation at your teams. I am not obsessed with your teams. How’s the QB situation at Missouri or don’t you live on Missouri articles?
Good grief. That loss to TN last year has officially broken Donk. We are having a legit conversation about the potential QB situation at Bama. Doesn’t make a lot of since to jump over and talk about it on the Kentucky or A&M page now does it. I’ve had conversations about the LSU QBs on their page. Because that is where it makes sense to have that conversation. Am I allowed to discuss The head coach situation at Auburn since I don’t live in Alabama? There isn’t an interesting story about Missouri or Miss St. QBs right now and if there was, I guarantee you I’d be conversating about it. I promise you, there is more to do on this site than tell people you’re a Bama fan. You’re obnoxious so it doesn’t take long to figure out who you pull for.
Now, take a breath, get your panties out of a bunch, quit being a little bit-ch boy, and let the men finish talking. Go tell GWhite he’s obsessed with Bama or blow a load to Saban hump-ing Bear Bryant or whatever you get your rocks off to.
Looking forward to your long rants on articles about Vandy or Kentucky. Who would write such a long diatribe on articles that have zilch to do with their team. Trolls is the answer. Thanks for proving my point. When Saban gets his typical revenge win in T-town this year try not to let the pain of another Bama win over the Vils get you so down that you have to live on Bama articles. Looking forward to all your comments on Ole Miss articles since you don’t troll Bama right? Sure!
Just looking from a different perspective, I think Bama fans are a little nervous that we won’t be as dominant as before and that scares them. Doesn’t mean they will be a 6-6 team but 10-2 is very possible, which to some people is a disaster of a season. I remember only winning 3 games and being on probation. Fans back then would have killed for a 10-2 season.
Not defending Donk, but I also see where he is coming from. It is not uncommon to see multiple trolls from other teams come to every Bama article and start commenting; looking at Negan. You really don’t see them going to Vandy articles and commenting.
I do believe we will be more of a 2015 team and rely more on the running game. Not with one player like Henry, but we have 4 pretty good backs that can carry the load. We just need enough of a passing game to keep teams honest. This also helps manage the clock better for our defense.
Who knows what this season will bring. Nobody, other than a delusional Negan, can predict it.
Now if I were to spend hours writing long negative comments on TN, GA or LSU articles that had nothing to do with Bama there might be a reason to complain about me but I don’t do that. I just point out trolls when they do that. Seems they don’t like hearing the truth. Must be envy or they would be trolling Vandy and Miss State just as much. Appears they don’t like being confronted with that truth.
LSUSMC…You’re right. Real Alabama fans do not want to see Milroe at QB. We want to win football games.
Doink and Doug….just checked out the Vandy page. No comments from either one of y’all
Well CO corndog, I don’t troll other teams like many of these others. Thanks for providing evidence to support what I was saying. BTW, I am posting this from Estes Park CO. Beautiful place but way too cold in the winter for me. Rockies beat the Marlins to help my Braves.
LSUSMC…As the season progresses Simpson may emerge as the #1. Milroe is not going to surprise, he merely runs the ball. That was wonderful in High School but this is SEC football.
I’m an Bama fan who is not a homer. This year’s QB situation will be different than the past six years. However, it’s not like Alabama hasn’t been extremely competitive with average or slightly above average QBs. There is plenty of talent around whomever the QB is this season. Defense will be much improved with the addition of Steele. The talent was there, the scheme was terribly flawed the past four years on D. It was too complicated and didn’t allow the players to attack. Steele changes this.
The SEC is in a resurgence. For the last eight or so years, it was Bama and maybe one other SEC Team that carried the conference. Now, UGA and TN have stepped up with several other teams looking to become contenders. Even when Bama won several of its past NCs, they still had tough games against SEC foes or even a loss. 2022 looked like 2010. Every team will experience it at some point. The good news about years like last year for Bama is it causes introspection and change. Saban has been the absolute best at this. Will it come to an end one day. Sure. Only fools think differently. But, it’s not now or the next three-to-four years. I remember when a woeful passing QB, Blake Sims, took Bama to the semifinals and a 7-point loss to OSU. Yes, the team had Henry, but he was not the Henry of 2015. Milroe, Simpson, and Buchner are all as good or better than Sims. And, this team is loaded with talent. UGA and OSU are the only other two teams with an equal amount of talent.
It will be an interesting year. UGA is the top dog, no pun intended. To be the champ, you have to beat the champ. And it is UGA right now.
TampaTide…A great and accurate post. Roll Tide !