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Alabama’s Top Breakout Candidate Jerry Jeudy: 2022 Bama in the NFL Tracker Week 1

Denver Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson has been making a degree to reward his new teammates for giving further effort in getting ready for the 2022 season.
The most effective examples he is given was that former Alabama extensive receiver Jerry Jeudy has been sitting in on quarterback conferences.
“It helps me quite a bit,” Jeudy mentioned again in July per Mile Excessive Huddle. “Simply sitting within the quarterback room and understanding their language, understanding their thought course of and every play to know which learn they’re first towards what protection. [It] actually helps me with my route. So I simply needed to go in there and be taught as a lot as I can. The extra I be taught, the higher I can get. in order that’s what I made a decision to do.”
Jeudy was lately requested about it once more because the Broncos get able to open the season towards Wilson’s former group, the Seattle Seahawks, on Monday evening.
Sure, regardless of already being identified for his route operating, he is nonetheless going.
Along with the play-calls, it is helped with the brand new offensive scheme underneath coordinator Justin Outten, plus with timing.
“Realizing when to hurry issues up, figuring out once I’m in a position to sluggish issues down,” Jeudy mentioned.
One thing else that is been serving to Jeudy is lining up reverse a well-recognized face throughout practices, former Crimson Tide cornerback Patrick Surtain II.
“Going towards him makes me quite a bit higher,” he mentioned.
Jeudy is our high candidate for breakout participant amongst former Crimson Tide gamers this NFL season.
He is working with a greater quarterback, a coordinator who has a greater sense of learn how to use him, and deep risk Tim Patrick suffered a torn ACL and is out for the season.
Final season, Jeudy completed with simply 38 receptions (on 56 targets) for 467 yards. Not solely did he not rating a landing throughout the 10 video games he performed, he wasn’t even focused within the crimson zone.
“Me simply being higher than I used to be final 12 months,” mentioned Jeudy, the Fifteenth-overall choice within the 2020 NFL Draft. “Making all of the performs that come to me, simply profitable, profitable each recreation and simply doing my half.”
Recreation of the Week
• Patriots at Dolphins: Mac Jones and Tua Tagovailoa are two of the 12 beginning quarterbacks within the league who’re underneath the age of 25, together with their former Alabama teammate Jalen Hurts.
The bettors and oddsmakers are shopping for the Tagovailoa hype. The Dolphins will go right into a recreation towards the Patriots because the favorites for the primary time since December 2013.
By the way, every of the final 4 Tremendous Bowls have kicked off with a beginning quarterback underneath 26.
Matchup of the Week
Trevon Diggs vs. Mike Evans: The FanNation website Cowboys Nation might be trying to make a fast learn on whether or not Diggs’ 11-interception season final 12 months, essentially the most by anybody since 1981, was a flash or if he has an opportunity to do it once more.
Final 12 months the Cowboys and Buccaneers additionally met in Week 1, with the reigning-champions profitable 31-29 at dwelling.
Diggs made his first decide of the season throughout the second quarter.
Evans may need had three catches within the recreation, however per NextGenStats, Diggs held the receiver to only one catch of 10 yards whereas protecting him on 39 of 47 routes.
Evans went on to have a 1,000 season, however simply barely at 1,035, leaving some to marvel if the veteran going into his ninth season would possibly lastly miss the milestone for the primary time.
In fact, he did have a career-high 14 landing receptions with Tom Brady throwing to him.
How you can Watch NFL Week 1
Thursday’s Recreation
Buffalo Payments at Los Angeles Rams, 8:20 p.m., NBC
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Sunday’s Video games
New Orleans Saints at Atlanta Falcons, midday, Fox
Cleveland Browns at Carolina Panthers, midday, CBS
San Francisco 49ers at Chicago Bears, midday, Fox
Pittsburgh Steelers at Cincinnati Bengals, midday, CBS
Philadelphia Eagles at Detroit Lions, midday, Fox
Indianapolis Colts at Houston Texans, midday, CBS
New England Patriots at Miami Dolphins, midday, CBS
Baltimore Ravens at New York Jets, midday, CBS
Jacksonville Jaguars at Washington Commanders, midday, Fox
Kansas Metropolis Chiefs at Arizona Cardinals, 3:25 p.m., CBS
Las Vegas Raiders at Los Angeles Chargers, 3:25 p.m., CBS
Inexperienced Bay Packers at Minnesota Vikings, 3:25 p.m., Fox
New York Giants at Tennessee Titans, 3:25 p.m., Fox
Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Dallas Cowboys, 7:20 p.m., NBC
Monday’s Recreation
Denver Broncos at Seattle Seahawks, 7:15 p.m., ESPN/ABC
Tide-Bits
• Rod Walker of Nola.com was the primary to report that New Orleans Saints operating again Mark Ingram II is switching again to the quantity 22 jersey. The transfer got here days after defensive again Chauncey Gardner-Johnson, who had worn quantity 22, was traded to the Philadelphia Eagles. Ingram was a first-round draft decide of the Saints in 2011. He was first given quantity 32, however switched to quantity 28 earlier than the beginning of his 2011 rookie marketing campaign.
• Linebacker Rashaan Evans will make his Falcons debut. He had 317 tackles, together with 15 for a loss throughout his 4 seasons with the Titans (2018-21). Different vital debuts embody Amari Cooper with the Browns, Julio Jones in Tampa Bay (he leads all energetic gamers with 879 receptions 879 and 13,330 receiving yards), and this 12 months’s rookie class led by Evan Neal with the New York Giants.
• Jones will put on No. 6 this season. Why? As a result of “when they throw it to me, it’s six,” he mentioned in a video launched by the group.
• Operating again Najeh Harris was named certainly one of 5 group captains for the Steelers, however Minkah Fitzpatrick was not. The others have been quarterback Mitch Trubisky, defensive finish Cam Heyward, linebacker T.J. Watt and security Miles Killebrew.
• Vikings tight finish Irv Smith Jr. told Chris Tomasson of the Pioneer Press that he expects to play in Sunday’s season opener towards the Packers at U.S. Financial institution Stadium. Smith had surgical procedure to repair a thumb damage a bit of over a month in the past.
• Hurts this week: “I do know that there are tons of various issues which might be mentioned, however I don’t hear them. I don’t hear. I don’t search for it. I simply come right here. I come to work. I do my job. I attempt to develop in doing my job each day. I do me.”
• Texans coach Lovie Smith had good issues to say about including tight finish O.J. Howard after he was launched by the Payments. “You’re all the time attempting so as to add good gamers, easy as that,” Smith mentioned per Texans Day by day. “O.J. is an effective participant. He has quite a lot of expertise. He’s enthusiastic about being right here.” Howard practiced for the primary time in a Texans’ uniform Monday morning. “I can do all of it,” he mentioned.
Did You Discover?
• The ultimate 53-man roster for the New England Patriots included 10 rookies.
• For the primary time since 2016, when he was the tight ends coach for the New England Patriots, Brian Daboll will not be calling performs in a recreation. “Clearly, there are changes that have to be made, choices that need to occur fast whenever you’re a play-caller,” the New York Giants head coach mentioned. “However I actually have enter on all three of these areas.
“You attempt to do this work earlier than the sport one of the best you may in order that the play callers haven’t lots of people of their ear; they will get it out fast to the quarterback or to X (Security Xavier McKinney), and people guys can have as a lot time as they will to course of the decision.”
• NFL Preseason Energy Rankings Ballot: Payments on High Heading Into Week 1
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Alabama Coach Has High Hopes for Texas A&M’s Bucky McMillan

After losing Buzz Williams this offseason, the Texas A&M Aggies decided to go in a different direction for their next head coach.
Rather than hire another power conference retread, the Aggies hired former Samford coach Bucky McMillan to lead the way. McMillan, 41, led the Bulldogs to a 99-52 record (54-29 SoCon) and an NCAA Tournament appearance in 2024, their first in 24 years, over his five seasons with the team.
Now, he’ll look to lead the Aggies to similar success in probably the best conference in the country.
Already, one of the premier coaches in the SEC is taking notice. When speaking at the Regions Traditions Pro-Am golf tournament, Alabama’s Nate Oats shared that he will be watching McMillan’s career with great interest.
“I think it’s pretty cool,” Oats said, per On3. “I got here, I talked to Bucky, and I talked to him even about an assistant role. Then I told him, like, ‘Look, man, you need to get to wherever you’re going to get as an assistant,’ and fortunate for him, he’s able to jump right from high school head coach. ‘Just do it on your own accord, how good as you are, and that’ll be better.’ And he did.”
Oats has a somewhat similar background to McMillan. The 50-year-old’s first collegiate head coaching role came at Buffalo, where he led the Bulls to the NCAA Tournament three times in four seasons. Now, he’s one of the premier coaches in the country after leading the Crimson Tide to five straight tournament appearances, including a Final Four in 2024 and an Elite Eight in 2025.
“I mean, he got to Samford, hit it out of the park,” Oats said. “You know, me and him have talked a lot. Shoot, I’ve talked to him even a few times since he’s got to A&M. He says that the success I’ve had here, I think, helped him a little bit with just high school coaches can do it,” Oats said. “And I think it’s great for all the really good high school coaches around. I mean, he went right from high school to Samford. He hit it out of the park, and now he’s in our league.”
It will take some time for McMillan to establish himself in the SEC, especially when he’s basically had to build the roster from scratch this offseason. If he’s able to translate his game from a mid-major conference to a power conference, though, he might just have a chance to become a premier coach like Oats is.
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Alabama tornado count increases from Tuesday storms

The National Weather Service is adding to its number of confirmed tornadoes from Tuesday’s round of severe weather.
The National Weather Service in Huntsville continued conducting storm surveys on Thursday and have added two tornadoes to the ongoing count, which stands at eight.
That number will likely climb, with additional storm surveys ongoing, forecasters said.
One of the newly confirmed tornadoes was an EF-1 with top winds estimated at 110 mph in Jackson County.
The other new addition to the list was another EF-1 with 100 mph winds in Marshall County near Allens Crossroads:
The weather service in Huntsville also did storm surveys on Wednesday and confirmed three other tornadoes — and two of them were EF-2s.
The weather service in Birmingham also confirmed three EF-1 tornadoes in central Alabama from storms Tuesday and early Wednesday.
In addition, straight-line winds of up to 105 mph were noted in far western Limestone, southeastern Lauderdale, northern Lawrence and northern Colbert counties, according to the weather service in Huntsville.
Here are the tornadoes confirmed so far:
- Killingsworth Cove Tornado (Madison County): EF-2, maximum winds 134 mph. Path length 1.41 miles; path width 175 yards. No injuries.
- Madison Tornado (Limestone and Madison counties): EF-2, top winds 125 mph. Path length 13.15 miles; path width 380 yards. No injuries.
- South Athens Tornado (Limestone County): EF-1, top winds 105 mph. Path length 2.76 miles; path width 160 yards. No injuries.
- Saks Tornado (Calhoun County): EF-1, top winds 95 mph. Path length 3.51 miles; path width 0 yards. No injuries.
- County Road 67 Tornado (Cleburne County): EF-1, top winds 95 mph. Path length 1.97 miles; path width 550 yards. No injuries.
- County Road 185 Tornado (Bullock County): EF-1, top winds 105 mph. Path length 4.98 miles; path width 900 yards. No injuries.
- Allens Crossroads Tornado (Marshall County): EF-1, top winds 100 mph. Path length 3.39 miles; path width 150 yards. No injuries.
- Trenton Tornado (Jackson County): EF-1, top winds 110 mph. Path length 10.46 miles; path width 275 yards. No injuries.
See more on the north Alabama tornadoes from the National Weather Service in Huntsville here.
See more on the central Alabama tornadoes from the National Weather Service in Birmingham here.
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National Weather Service confirms 2 tornadoes in east Alabama Tuesday night

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) – The National Weather service has confirmed a total of six tornadoes that traveled through Alabama Tuesday night, and two of them were in east Alabama.
According to NWS, an EF-1 struck Calhoun County and in Cleburne County with winds reaching up to 95 MPH.
Officials say the tornado in Calhoun County occurred in the Saks area and had a path width of 3.51 miles, beginning on 2 SW Saks at 11:35 p.m. and ending at 11:40 p.m. on 1 SE Blue Mountain. Officials say the tornado caused damage just north of the Lloyds Chapel Cemetery and several other places where there were trees that were uprooted or snapped, including one tree falling on a manufactured home and a site built home in the area. The tornado also forced traffic and road blockages on CR 46 near the intersections or McCulley Lane and near Alexandria Road due to uprooted trees.
The Cleburne County tornado began on 3 NNW Ranburne at 12:25 a.m. Officials say the tornado traveled for 1.97 miles before lifting on 2 N Ranburne. The tornado destroyed half of an old barn with a large portion of the barn landing on a home about 30 yards downstream. Debris from the barn was also found hundreds of yards away in an adjoining pasture before snapping and uprooting trees as it crossed CR 67, 611, and 95, according to NWS.
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