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Kalen DeBoer didn’t waste much time when it came to building his first Alabama football recruiting class.
In DeBoer’s first season with the Crimson Tide, Alabama finished with the fourth-best recruiting class nationally per 247Sports’ composite rankings.
With the help of signing players such as quarterback Keelon Russell, offensive lineman Michael Carroll and cornerback Dijon Lee, Alabama had the third-highest average recruit rating nationally in 2025.
With Alabama’s attention turned to building the 2026 class, how did the Crimson Tide’s 2025 class compare to the rest of the SEC and to past Alabama classes?
SEC 2025 recruiting rankings: Where did Alabama football rank?
In the first season of the DeBoer era, Alabama had one of the better classes in the SEC.
The Crimson Tide finished with the third-ranked class in the conference behind Texas and Georgia. Alabama had the second-highest average player rating in the SEC behind Texas, and was one of three programs in the conference with multiple five-star signees along with the Longhorns and Bulldogs.
Here’s a look at the full SEC 2025 recruiting rankings according to the 247Sports composite:
Texas
Georgia
Alabama
Auburn
Texas A&M
LSU
Florida
Tennessee
Ole Miss
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Missouri
Mississippi State
Arkansas
Kentucky
Vanderbilt
How did Alabama recruit compared to other programs with first-year head coaches?
In his first season with the Crimson Tide, DeBoer still put together one of the top recruiting classes in the country.
Alabama was one of three teams with first-year head coaches that finished with top-10 2025 classes per 247Sports’ composite recruiting rankings, joined by Mike Elko and Texas A&M at No. 7, and Sherrone Moore and Michigan at No. 8.
Here is how DeBoer did compared to other first-year college football coaches in 2024:
Alabama (Kalen DeBoer): No. 4, 93.00 average player…
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Author : The Tuscaloosa News
Publish date : 2025-01-27 10:06:00
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