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Video: Alabama’s Cyrus Jones gets the scoring started with 69-yard punt return

Talal Elmasry

By Talal Elmasry

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Alabama and Mississippi State were locked in a scoreless game up until the 10:44 mark in the second quarter.

That’s when the Tide’s senior Cyrus Jones saw a seam and blew through it on a 69-yard punt return for a touchdown to help Alabama to a 7-0 lead.

It was the Tide’s first “traditional” punt return taken back to the house. Minkah Fitzpatrick’s blocked punt for a 15-yard touchdown against Georgia in Week 5 counts as a punt return TD, so this is technically the second for Alabama this season.

However, there may have been a block in the back on the return that wasn’t called, and it got some attention in the Twitter world.

Talal Elmasry

Born and raised in Gainesville, Talal joined SDS in 2015 after spending 2 years in Bristol as an ESPN researcher. Previously, Talal worked at The Gainesville Sun.

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