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What does it take to stop Jaylen Mbakwe, the receiver? Zabien Brown would know.
When asked, all the rising Alabama football sophomore cornerback did was smile, reverting to how the Crimson Tide wide receiver room, generally, is unique, and how versatility as a cornerback is key in stopping all the members of that room.
But to Brown, there is no question: Mbakwe is a full-fledged member of Alabama’s receiver room.
“He really (has) been opening a lot of people’s eyes,” Brown said.
Mbakwe is no longer the Alabama cornerback-turned-wide receiver, working to make the transition as seamless as possible heading into his second season with the Crimson Tide. He’s now a part of the collective, a group eager to work, eager to improve.
“The thing I like about where he is at right now is his head’s in a good place,” Alabama coach Kalen DeBoer said. “He’s just working and getting better. The whole room has improved, right? From top to bottom, it’s competitive. But he’s getting in there and taking advantage of the reps he has, and that’s what you want to do at this time.”
None of this is a shock to Clay-Chalkville High School football coach Stuart Floyd, who had a front-row seat to Mbakwe’s last position change.
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Floyd first saw Mbakwe on the opposing sideline, coaching at Mortimer Jordan High School, trying to game plan against a receiver room that included Mbakwe, Tennessee-turned-Florida State wide receiver Squirrel White and Mississippi State-turned-Texas A&M receiver Mario Craver.
“(It) wasn’t kind of easy to pick one,” Floyd said.
Mbakwe was the kind of receiver opposing cornerbacks tried to keep in front of them, Floyd said. It was their only hope, praying that he would not use his shiftiness and speed to evade tacklers.
But when Floyd was hired at Clay-Chalkville…
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