The high school football season is well underway around the country, and it is time to start tracking how Alabama football commits fared over the last week of high school action.

Each week, The Tuscaloosa News will track how some of the top Alabama football commitments performed during high school games the week before. Here’s a roundup of how some of future Crimson Tide players performed during high school action from the week of Aug. 19.

Anthony Rogers

Carver-Montgomery (Montgomery, Alabama), running back

Performance: Rogers continued with his dominance this season, scoring a rushing touchdown in Carver’s 44-12 win over Percy Julian. Rogers touchdown came from more than 30 yards out with him breaking multiple tackles while getting to the end zone.

Lotzeir Brooks

Millville (Millville, New Jersey), wide receiver

Performance: Brooks set a New Jersey high school football state record, reaching 54 career touchdown receptions in his team’s 35-0 win over Holy Spirit last week. In the win, Brooks had five catches for 200 yards and three touchdowns.

London Simmons

Hartfield Academy (Flowood, Mississippi), defensive lineman

Performance: In Flowood’s 40-0 win over Simpson Academy last week, Simmons accounted for five total tackles —three assisted, two solo — along with three tackles for loss. Simmons currently sits at 11 total tackles and four tackles for loss three games into the season.

Luke Metz

Mill Creek (Hoschton, Georgia), linebacker

Performance: In Mill Creek’s 48-14 win over Archer, Metz accounted for four tackles, one of those being for loss, along with one sack. He now sits as 28 total tackles on the season, four for loss and three sacks.

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Kaleb Edwards

Oak Ridge (El Dorado Hills, California), tight end

Performance: Edwards had six receptions for 84 yards, a long of 25-yards, and one touchdown. It marks the four-star tight ends first touchdown of the 2024 season.

A convicted ax murderer who killed five people will be executed by lethal injection in Alabama — the fifth prisoner to be put to death in the state this year, the governor announced on Tuesday.

Derrick Dearman, 35, was convicted in the savage slaying of five friends and family members of his then-girlfriend — including a pregnant woman and her unborn child — in a meth-fueled massacre in Citronelle, Alabama in 2016.

Dearman fired his attorneys earlier this year and ended all appeals of his conviction and death sentence.

“I’ve decided to drop my appeals and have my sentence carried out… I was fairly tried and convicted. I agreed with the court’s decision,” he told AL.com in a phone interview from death row this spring.

“Whether I was in my right mind or not, innocent lives were lost and the crime was committed,” he said.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey announced Dearman will be executed between 12 a.m. October 17 and 6 a.m. October 18.

He chose to die by lethal injection rather than nitrogen hypoxia — a controversial execution method that was introduced to Alabama just this year.

While Dearman had said earlier this year he wasn’t prepared to die any time soon, he penned a letter to the Alabama Attorney General’s Office last month, outraged that other death row inmates were jumping line ahead of him, according to AL.com.

“I have done everything that is required to drop my appeals and have my sentence carried out and I am compotent [sic] and of a sound mind…can you please respond to this letter to let me know what the hold up is??????” the convict wrote.

“All this is hard on not only me but my family and the longer it takes the more me and my family have to go through,” Dearman added.

Dearman was abusive towards his girlfriend at the time, Laneta Lester, and the day before the killings, Lester’s brother picked her up and took her to safety at his home in a remote area of Mobile County near Citronelle, according to court documents.

Dearman showed up at the home multiple times that night, but no one there would allow him inside.

In the early morning hours of Aug. 20, 2016, Dearman picked up an ax from the yard, broke into the home and started hacking at the victims while they slept.

After attacking five victims with an ax and fatally shooting them, Dearman forced Lester, who was unharmed, and a 3-month-old child into a car and drove them to his father’s house in Mississippi.

The victims were Lester’s brother Joseph Adam Turner, 26; Robert Lee Brown, 26; Chelsea Marie Reed, 22; Justin Kaleb Reed, 23; and Shannon Melissa Randall, 35.

Chelsea Reed was pregnant with her and Justin Reed’s first child.

The 3-month-old boy, who was in bed with them at the time, was the first son of Turner and Randall.

He turned himself in the next day and admitted to authorities that he was “strung out” on drugs during the killings.

“If I was sober, that would have never happened,” he told AL.com.

Dearman was put on death row in 2018. He is scheduled to be the fifth person put to death in Alabama this year.

Alabama will attempt to conduct a sixth execution this year, which would tie the state for the most in the past 50 years.

Gov. Kay Ivey Tuesday set an Oct. 17 execution date for Derrick Dearman, 36, who confessed to killing Robert Lee Brown, 26; Chelsea Marie Reed, 22; Justin Kaleb Reed, 23; Joseph Adam Turner, 26 and Shannon Melissa Randall, 35, on August 20, 2016. Chelsea Reed was five months pregnant.

The day of the murders, Dearman drove to a house west of Citronelle in Mobile County where his girlfriend had gone to escape him and end their relationship. Dearman killed the five people in the house, then drove his estranged girlfriend and the infant of one of the victims to his father’s house in Mississippi, where he let them go. Dearman later turned himself into the police in Greene County, Mississippi.

Dearman pleaded guilty to the murders in 2018, but a trial took place as required by state law in capital cases. A jury sentenced Dearman to death. The state plans to execute Dearman by lethal injection.

Dearman earlier this year fired his attorneys and wrote to Ivey and Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, asking them to set his execution date. He told CNN in April that it was “the only option that would help the victims’ families get the closure they need to move forward.”

“From my point of view, there’s nothing I could ever say or do to make this right,” Dearman said. “I feel like I personally have a debt for the crimes that I committed. That’s the only way that I could ever show that I’m truly remorseful, that I truly do have a conscience.”

Dearman’s execution would be the fifth conducted in 2024 and the sixth to be scheduled. The state executed Kenneth Eugene Smith by nitrogen gas in January. Jamie Ray Mills, executed in May, and Keith Edmund Gavin, executed in July, were both put to death by lethal injection. Alan Eugene Miller is scheduled to be executed by nitrogen gas this month, and Carey Grayson by nitrogen gas in November.

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, Alabama last executed six people in 2011. It also executed six people in 2009. Both were the most for the state since executions resumed in 1983.