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Alabama offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian is recovering following heart surgery performed last week, the school announced Tuesday afternoon. Sarkisian, 46, had successful heart surgery in Birmingham on July 2, according to a statement released by the athletics department. It was the result of an annual physical exam that uncovered a congenital cardiovascular anomaly. "He is back home in Tuscaloosa and is expected to make a full recovery," the statement concluded. The former head coach at Washington and USC is entering his second season as Alabama's offensive coordinator. He held the same job with the Atlanta Falcons from 2017-18 after serving as an analyst with the Tide in 2016. Sarkisian was set to take the Alabama offensive coordinator job in 2017 before heading to the Falcons. - Birmingham News

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QB *Mac Jones, Alabama
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07/01/20 - *Patrick Surtain II, Jr/2021, Alabama, 6-2, 208 (DS#1 CB) + More +

Alabama and LSU both had three players named to the first-team defense in the 74th Birmingham News/AL.com preseason All-SEC team announced this week. Linebacker Dylan Moses, defensive lineman LaBryan Ray and cornerback Patrick Surtain all picked up first-team honors for the Crimson Tide. Defensive lineman Christian Barmore was a second-team pick, giving the Crimson Tide four of the 24 players selected in voting by football information directors from each SEC school. The defending national champion Tigers also had three first-teamers and one second-teamer. Defensive lineman Tyler Shelvin was joined by cornerback Derek Stingley and safety JaCoby Stevens on the first-team, with kicker Cade York receiving a second-team nod. - Birmingham News

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CB *Patrick Surtain II, Alabama
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06/30/20 - Alex Leatherwood, Sr/2021, Alabama, 6-5, 312 (DS#5 OT) + More +

Alabama had four players named to the first-team offense in the 74th Birmingham News/AL.com preseason All-SEC team announced this week. Wide receiver DeVonta Smith, guard Deonte Brown, tackle Alex Leatherwood and running back Najee Harris all picked up first-team honors. Offensive lineman Landon Dickerson earned a spot on the second team giving the Crimson Tide five of the 24 players selected in voting by football information directors from each SEC school. Kentucky had three first-teamers, including two on the offensive line. Center Drake Jackson and tackle Darian Kinnard joined punter Max Duffy as Wildcats chosen as the best at their position heading into the 2020 season (punter is considered an offensive position for the purposes of this list; kickers are selected as part of the defense). - Birmingham News

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OT Alex Leatherwood, Alabama
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06/30/20 - DeVonta Smith, Sr/2021, Alabama, 6-0, 170 (DS#2 WR) + More +

The Southeastern Conference's annual media days will not take place as originally scheduled. SEC fans will have to wait to get their fix of press conferences and football analysis as SEC Media Days 2020 won't occur as originally planned on July 13-16, according to multiple sources. The league had previously adjusted its week-long media event in Atlanta to a virtual-only approach due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

A league spokesperson confirmed that SEC Media Days won't take place July 13-16 and that dates and times are still to be determined. In the June 10 press release for the switch to a virtual-only approach, it noted that the dates and times hadn't been announced. Since that release, the NCAA approved a preseason football model that allows summer football activities to begin July 13. While no official decision has been made yet, SEC Media Days are expected to be pushed back until at least the last week of July and possibly the first week of August. - Birmingham News

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WR DeVonta Smith, Alabama
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06/29/20 - Chris Jones, Sr/2015, Alabama, 5-10, 182 (DS#82 WR) + More +

The Edmonton Eskimos released wide receiver Christion Jones on Sunday after his tweet on Global Pride Day sparked a backlash. In a now deleted tweet, the Alabama alumnus wrote on Saturday night: "Ima keep it this real...Man ain't suppose to be with a man. A women is not suppose to be with another women. THAT'S ME THO! Live life with safety." On Sunday afternoon, the Canadian Football League team announced it had released Jones: The CFL also issued a statement: "We in the CFL hold high the Diversity Is Strength banner. Our league makes no claim on perfection, but it does strive to be inclusive, to accept and indeed celebrate our differences, and to respect and honour human rights. There is no place in our league for commentary that disparages people on the basis of their religion, race, gender or sexual orientation. As Pride Month continues, we stand with the LGBTQ+ community. We all need to say no to hate and yes to love."

Eight minutes before the Eskimos tweeted that Jones had been released, the wide receiver tweeted an apology. Between the tweet that triggered his release and his apology, Jones had a session of responses with social-media users responding to his initial comments, including: Jones was an All-State selection for Minor High School in Adamsville for the 2009 and 2010 seasons before playing four years for Alabama. While with the Crimson Tide, Jones earned the SEC Special Teams Player of the Year Award for the 2013 season. At Alabama, Jones caught 85 passes for 1,030 yards and seven touchdowns, returned 66 punts for 719 yards and three touchdowns and ran back 68 kickoffs for 1,727 yards and two touchdowns. - Birmingham News

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WR Chris Jones, Alabama
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06/25/20 - *Tua Tagovailoa, Jr/2020, Alabama, 6-0, 217 (DS#2 QB) + More +

Google "Alabama quarterback" and "beloved," and the results are like a rundown of recent Crimson Tide QBs. Stories about Jalen Hurts, Blake Sims, AJ McCarron and Tua Tagovailoa instantly pop up. But not all football fans are enamored with the Alabama signal-callers. The Tide has its Iron Bowl opponent and 12 other SEC rivals. Then there's seemingly annual postseason foe Clemson and other teams of national stature that Alabama has butted heads with along the championship trail. So Tagovailoa could speak from personal experience when he gave advice about dealing with social-media trolls during the Miami Dolphins' annual High School Media Day.

"For me, going through that in college, it's really however much you decide to go on your social media, first off," Tagovailoa said. "If you're on that thing every time, you're obviously going to see whatever anyone says. If there's someone that likes to post just to post because you like the likes or you like the comments, you're going to see that. There's been instances where I ran into a lot of them, but I don't know - I guess the structure that I've had growing up, it's been easy to deal with sort of things like that. Having the structure of my family and then our faith as well, that's kind of what's helped me and helped me to not worry about those kind of things." - Birmingham News

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QB *Tua Tagovailoa, Alabama
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06/20/20 - *Tua Tagovailoa, Jr/2020, Alabama, 6-0, 217 (DS#2 QB) + More +

Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores said earlier this month that the coaching staff was eager to work with the NFL team's rookies, particularly first-round draft pick Tua Tagovailoa. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Dolphins' facility in Davie, Florida, was off-limits to the team's coaches and most of the players as Miami conducted its offseason program online. "Specific to Tua, he's working hard," Flores said on June 4. "He's picking up the information. But you want to get your hands on him, quite honestly." Now the Dolphins can. The South Florida Sun Sentinel reported Tagovailoa arrived for work at the Dolphins' headquarters on Monday after relocating from Alabama, giving team personnel their first chance to evaluate first-hand his progress from a hip injury since Miami selected the Crimson Tide quarterback with the fifth choice in the NFL Draft on April 23. - Birmingham News

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QB *Tua Tagovailoa, Alabama
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06/10/20 - DeVonta Smith, Sr/2021, Alabama, 6-0, 170 (DS#2 WR) + More +

When reporters in January probed Alabama wide receiver DeVonta Smith for hints about his then-looming decision whether to enter the NFL or stay in school, details were scarce. "[It will be about] just putting me, myself and my family in the best situation that we think is best for us," Smith said outside the Tide's Camping World Stadium locker room after a Citrus Bowl win over Michigan. Five days later, Smith revealed his choice: he was returning for his senior season. The world has turned upside down in the five months since, wiping out spring football practices and adding uncertainty to the manner in which the fall college season will be played. As doubt was cast on Smith's senior season, two of his teammates in Alabama's receiver room -- Henry Ruggs and Jerry Jeudy -- were drafted three picks apart in the first round of April's NFL draft. Their professional deals will be worth a combined $32 million.

Whether Smith made the right decision, football-wise, to remain in college won't be known for another seven months. But, assuming the upcoming season is played as scheduled, Smith will have a less-crowded stage at his position to showcase his abilities to NFL teams and potentially raise his stock higher. Former Alabama safety Robby Green, who now runs New Orleans-based Dynamic Performance Training, has been readying Smith for his final act in Tuscaloosa. "He's got unfinished business," Green told AL.com this week. "He has unfinished business he has to prove and personal goals he has to accomplish." - Birmingham News

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WR DeVonta Smith, Alabama
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06/01/20 - *Henry Ruggs III, Jr/2020, Alabama, 5-11, 188 (DS#3 WR) + More +

Las Vegas Raiders receiver Henry Ruggs III injured his thigh while moving items into the back of a trailer, his father told AL.com Monday afternoon. "He was trying to move a trailer or something -- move furniture or something -- and the trailer just kind of pinned him against a car or a wall or something," Henry Ruggs Jr. said. "He's pretty much OK, I'm about to go out there and see him in a little bit. It was just like a little open wound on his leg, a little incision. Like something had stuck him right there on his thigh a little bit." Ruggs Jr. said he hasn't spoken to the doctor yet but that his son, who starred at Alabama from 2017-2019, "feels OK." "With this COVID-19 stuff still going on, they wouldn't let anybody in," Ruggs Jr. said. "He's just having to walk on crutches. Not putting as much pressure on it." - Birmingham News

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WR *Henry Ruggs III, Alabama
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05/26/20 - Terrell Lewis, rJr/2020, Alabama, 6-5, 262 (DS#4 DE) + More +

Terrell Lewis was the eighth of the nine players selected from Alabama in the NFL Draft last month. But the Los Angeles Rams think they might have gotten the best the Crimson Tide had to offer this year when they acquired the outside linebacker with a third-round choice. Rams general manager Les Snead cited Alabama coach Nick Saban and his Crimson Tide staff as the basis for that notion. During a video presentation this month for the team's season-ticket holders, Snead recounted how a scouting report from Alabama's 2018 spring practice stuck with him from among the thousands of words the Rams' scouts wrote about Lewis.

"Amongst all those five-stars and all the draftees they've had over the last few years," Snead said, "there was one sentence where, either (scout) Billy (Johnson) or Ted (Monago) wrote, the staff ranked Alabama players one through 125 or however many they have out there on that practice field, they ranked Terrell one and (quarterback) Tua (Tagovailoa) second. I remember ad nauseum of really trying to figure out this player and work through him, that sentence and that piece of data definitely resonated. A very astute staff that's won a lot of games and has seen a lot of talent put this five-star as their most talented player on the team." Johnson, an area scout for the Rams, said Saban's opinion carried weight proportional to the coach's status in college football. "Alabama's the mecca," Johnson said. "It's the land of the five-stars. You can go out there as a scout and just start drooling. Everybody looks good. You definitely listen if he says something. You're going to write it down and probably put it in a report, that's for sure." - Birmingham News

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DE Terrell Lewis, Alabama
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05/26/20 - *Tua Tagovailoa, Jr/2020, Alabama, 6-0, 217 (DS#2 QB) + More +

Fans eager to see Tua Tagovailoa play NFL football will have that opportunity on Tuesday night - in a virtual setting, of course. The former Alabama All-American will square off against New York Giants running back Saquon Barkley in a game of "Madden NFL 20" at 7 p.m. CST Tuesday as part of Verizon's "Pay It Forward Live" campaign. "Pay It Forward Live" is a twice-weekly livestream that has featured entertainers performing from their homes in support of small businesses. The game will be available on a variety of outlets, including Verizon's livestream. It also will be available via Yahoo, Verizon's Facebook and YouTube pages, Fios Channels 501 and 604, Yahoo Finance on Samsung TV Plus on Channel 1017, the Roku Channel, AXS TV, FOX NOW, iHeart and SiriusXM. - Birmingham News

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QB *Tua Tagovailoa, Alabama
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05/20/20 - *Mac Jones, rJr/2021, Alabama, 6-3, 217 (DS#3 QB) + More +

In addition to excelling on the field, Alabama's football team has been excelling in the classroom. The Crimson Tide football team posted a program-record Academic Progress Rate (APR) score of 990, according to figures released by the NCAA this week that cover the four-year period from the 2015-16 through the 2018-19 school years. That score (990) is 22 points higher than the national average for FBS football teams and ranked second-best in the SEC. The football team was one of 13 Alabama programs to post APR figures above the national average in their respective sports.

The basketball team was another one of those 13 programs. Like the football team, the basketball team had an APR score of 990, which was 24 points higher than the national average for FBS basketball programs. "Our latest NCAA APR numbers show that we remain steadfast in The University of Alabama's overarching mission to provide a top-notch education while providing a strong springboard to future success," Alabama athletic director Greg Byrne said. "Our dedication to that mission is campus wide and it shows." - Birmingham News

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QB *Mac Jones, Alabama
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05/15/20 - *Tua Tagovailoa, Jr/2020, Alabama, 6-0, 217 (DS#2 QB) + More +

Tua-mania is very real. By now you've heard over the past two weeks, Miami quarterback Tua Tagovailoa has the two best-selling jerseys on NFLShop.com. Tagovailoa's Miami aqua jersey is No. 1 and his white jersey is No. 2. There are now a variety of options for men, women and children who want to show their love for the former Alabama quarterback, who will wear No. 1, for the Dolphins. Fanatics.com has the quarterback's jersey for sale for just $99 in both the aqua and the white. Ladies, you aren't forgotten. Women's jerseys are also available. - Birmingham News

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QB *Tua Tagovailoa, Alabama
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05/13/20 - *Mac Jones, rJr/2021, Alabama, 6-3, 217 (DS#3 QB) + More +

NFL teams are only in the beginning stages of evaluating Jones, who started four games last season but was never considered a candidate to declare for the 2020 draft as an early entrant. Jones is one of eight quarterbacks on the radar of the Senior Bowl, although with two years of eligibility remaining, it is not a lock Jones would enter the NFL draft this winter, Dickinson said. Jones' performance in the Iron Bowl left plenty for NFL teams to digest. He completed 67 percent of his passes for 335 yards and four touchdowns but also gave points back on a pair of pick-six interceptions. "He had a couple unfortunate situations," Dickinson said. "Ball spun off of the running back [Najee Harris'] back and they had the pick six. That doesn't happen very often."

Jones faced an Auburn defensive line that included a first-round pick (Derrick Brown) and second-round pick (Marlon Davidson) in April's draft, as well as Nick Coe, who signed as an undrafted free agent with the New England Patriots. The quarterback's resiliency in the game impressed Auburn's defenders as well as his private coach. "I think he played more comfortable than he thought I might," Dickinson said. "I thought after he made a couple mistakes that he came back and did some really good stuff." Listed at 6-foot-2 and 205 pounds, Jones falls below what would be considered an ideal size for his position at the NFL level, which is why Walker wants to see Jones continue to bulk up as his college career progresses. - Birmingham News

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QB *Mac Jones, Alabama
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05/12/20 - *Mac Jones, rJr/2021, Alabama, 6-3, 217 (DS#3 QB) + More +

Speculation of a TCU and Alabama football match-up to start the 2020 season at AT&T Stadium has been building for a couple days now. ESPN commentator Paul Finebaum addressed the chatter on national airwaves Tuesday morning. But TCU is shooting down the speculation as just that - speculation. For now, at least. There's been no official talks between the schools. "We are preparing to play Cal in Week 1," TCU athletic director Jeremiah Donati told the Star-Telegram. "If we determine at some point that we cannot do so, we'll look at other options."

Donati said that a decision on what do to about the opponent for that Week 1 contest needs to be made by around July 1. Why is this match-up speculation gaining momentum? Well, both schools are set to face Pac-12, California-based schools to open the season. TCU is scheduled to play at Cal on Sept. 5, while Alabama and USC are scheduled to meet at AT&T Stadium that day. But the Pac-12 has discussed playing a conference-only schedule amid the coronavirus pandemic. That would limit the amount of travel and exposure those teams would face this fall. - Fort Worth Star

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QB *Mac Jones, Alabama
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