Alabama football expected to move on from offensive line coach

Alabama football will have a new offensive line coach next season. The Crimson Tide is expected to move on from Chris Kapilovic, AL.com confirmed on Friday.

The news was first reported by 247Sports.

Kapilovic spent two seasons with UA, after jumping over from Baylor to join Kalen DeBoer’s first staff in Tuscaloosa. He joined the Tide after Scott Huff jumped ship for the NFL after initially following DeBoer from Washington.

Under Kapilovic this season, the offensive line had more than its share of struggles. The unit used a huge rotation of players early in the season, and even after finding a regular five up front, it never became one of the top lines in the SEC.

In the College Football Playoff quarterfinals, the issues became readily apparent. Ty Simpson was under duress before he was injured in the first half, and the run game struggled mightily, just as it did for much of the year.

Kapilovic will become the first Alabama assistant to leave the staff this offseason without another job offer in hand. Wide receivers coach JaMarcus Shephard took the head coach job at Oregon State, while wide receivers coach Nick Sheridan headed to Michigan State, where he got an offensive coordinator gig.

Before his brief stint at Baylor, Kapilovic worked at Michigan State from 2020 through 2023 under. He was both offensive line coach and run game coordinator for the Spartans, and also held an assistant head coach title.

Kapilovic spent the 2019 season at Colorado, after working in various roles at North Carolina from 2012 through 2018.

Alabama will be looking for a new offensive line coach to take over a unit that will turn over most of its starters from last year. Michael Carroll is the lone remaining stalwart up front, after Kam Dewberry, Jaeden Roberts and Geno VanDeMark ran out of eligibility, Parker Brailsford and Kadyn Proctor went to the NFL Draft early and Wilkin Formby transferred to Texas A&M.