For the second time this week, Alabama has landed a commitment in the 2027 recruiting cycle, adding edge rusher JaBarrius Garror on Wednesday afternoon.
Garror is an in-state product, hailing from Mobile, Alabama where he attends Vigor High School. Vigor also produced Micah DeBose, a commit in Alabama’s 2025 class that’s currently ranked in the top-2 nationally.
Garror stands at 6-foot-2 and weighs right at 200 pounds, but both of those measurements may change significantly between now and the time he enrolls in college in three years.
Earlier this week, Alabama landed Ba’Roc Willis, another edge rusher in the 2027 class that’s also an in-state prospect, coming from Moody High School. Both players are rising sophomores in high school, and while the 2027 class doesn’t have consensus recruiting rankings quite yet, both prospects are viewed as some of the best in their class.
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The in-state commits are notable, coming off a week where in-state rival Auburn flipped multiple in-state commits away from Alabama in the 2025 class. Analysts and fans have expressed concern over head coach Kalen DeBoer’s ability to recruit in-state, though his No. 2-ranked class in 2025 is still filled with loads of talent from outside Alabama.
These two commits, however, give DeBoer an excellent starting point to build on for his in-state recruiting in the future. Alabama’s 2027 recruiting class is currently ranked No. 1, likely due to the fact that hardly any schools have taken a commit from a 2027 prospect so far. Regardless, it’s a strong foundation for DeBoer to build from.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — CJ Hines scored on a layup at the buzzer and finished with 23 points as Alabama State rallied to beat Arkansas-Pine Bluff 93-91 on Monday night.
Hines also contributed six rebounds for the Hornets (6-9, 2-0 Southwestern Athletic Conference). Amarr Knox added 20 points and Micah Octave scored 13.
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The Golden Lions (3-12, 0-2) were led by Doctor Bradley, who scored a career-high 35 in his second game of the season. Bradley, a junior who had a career-best 30 points in his first game, added seven rebounds and seven assists. Christian Moore had 19 points and Caleb Jones scored 15.
Alabama State rallied after trailing 50-41 at halftime.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
The Houston Texans have signed cornerback Anthony Averett to their practice squad, the NFL team announced on Monday.
The former Alabama defensive back joins the Texans as they prepare to play the Los Angeles Chargers in the first round of the AFC playoffs at 3:30 p.m. CST Saturday at NRG Stadium in Houston.
Averett fills the roster spot opened when the Texans signed cornerback D’Angelo Ross from their practice squad for their 53-man active roster on Saturday, and he played 48 defensive snaps in Sunday’s 23-14 victory over the Tennessee Titans.
Each NFL team can elevate two players from its practice squad to active status for each game, and that rule includes playoff contests.
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Averett was in training camp and played in the preseason with the Pittsburgh Steelers in August and spent the first eight weeks of the season on the team’s practice squad before being released with an injury settlement on Oct. 28.
Averett hasn’t played in an NFL regular-season game since Nov. 20, 2022, when his injury-affected, lone season with the Las Vegas Raiders ended early. He spent time with the San Francisco 49ers and Detroit Lions in 2023.
A senior starter for the Crimson Tide’s CFP national-championship team for the 2017 season, Averett entered the NFL as a fourth-round selection of the Baltimore Ravens in the 2018 draft.
Averett spent his first three seasons largely as a reserve with the Ravens before moving into a starting role when Marcus Peters got hurt in the second game of the 2021 season. Averett’s performance across 14 starts in Baltimore’s defensive backfield included his three NFL interceptions and earned him a one-year, $4 million contract from the Raiders in free agency.
Averett sustained a broken thumb and broken toe with Las Vegas in 2022.
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Averett has played in 51 NFL regular-season games and three playoff contests.
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As we learn more about the stories of those impacted by the deadly New Year’s Day terrorist attack in New Orleans, one Alabama woman is sharing her story of how her friends’ quick thinking after the attack likely saved her life.
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In the early morning hours of January 1, Shamsud-Din Jabbar drove a rented pickup truck into a crowd of people celebrating the start of 2025 on New Orleans’ world-famous Bourbon Street, killing 14 people and injuring dozens more.
Mobile, Al. native Alexis Scott-Windham was celebrating with her friends in the area when the 23-year-old says she noticed the truck speeding towards them.
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“As we look to our left, we see the truck come down the sidewalk because he was halfway on the sidewalk and halfway on the street. As he’s coming down, he has no lights on,” she told CNN in an interview. “He was hitting people like speed bumps like we were nothing.”
Jabbar’s truck clipped the back of Alexis’ leg. But when she tried to get up from the ground, she realized something else was wrong.
“That’s when I tried to run, but I couldn’t,” she told NBC News. “I knew something was wrong with my foot. I thought it was just a broken bone or something, but it wasn’t. My feet had started leaking.”
When Scott-Windham’s friends realized she’d been shot, they immediately called her mother, who told them to make a tourniquet in order to apply pressure to the area and stop the flow of blood.
“So I just told my daughter’s friend to just tie her other sock around her leg so she wouldn’t bleed so heavy,” Alexis’ mom Tryphena Scott-Windham told NBC News.
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Alexis’ friends sprung into action, getting her blood loss under control before a good Samaritan drove her to the hospital.
You might think Tryphena Scott-Windham’s advice comes from years of medical training, but she says she got the idea from watching television.
“I just blurted that out. I was in straight panic mode,” she told NBC News.
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