Alabama gave 4 of its players the honor of a lifetime, naming a quartet of team captains for the 2025 season on Thursday.
The list is led by Ty Simpson, who recently won the battle in fall camp to be the Crimson Tide’s starting quarterback. Simpson earned more recognition by being named a captain, a spot reserved for the very elite within arguably college football’s most tradition-rich program. Star linebacker Deontae Lawson, stud center Parker Brailsford, and defensive tackle Tim Keenan III will join Simpson as team captains this fall.
This means that Alabama evenly distributed its 4 captains on both sides of the football, with 2 being on offense and 2 being on defense. It doesn’t have to be that way, of course, but it worked out that way in 2025 for Year 2 under Kalen DeBoer.
The Alabama social media account celebrated the naming of the captains on Thursday afternoon with this post, topped by the headline: “Etched in History.”
Here is the post:
Lawson gets the rich honor of being named a returning captain in 2025. Simpson, Brailsford, and Keenan are all first-time captains.
Keenan has been rewarded at the end of his time in Tuscaloosa, being a redshirt senior and getting the honor. Lawson is also a redshirt senior.
Simpson is a redshirt junior. He, too, is a study in patience, entering his first year as the starting quarterback but his fourth year in the program.
Brailsford is also a redshirt junior and is the centerpiece of what is expected to be one of college football’s top offensive lines in 2025.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
