Jalen Milroe trying to grow as QB, not trying to ‘save’ an NFL team

Alabama is not exactly the kind of college football program to which one goes looking to be a savior. That certainly wasn’t the case when Jalen Milroe arrived in Tuscaloosa with the Crimson Tide still in the midst of Nick Saban’s historic coaching run.

That’s not necessarily going to be the case in the NFL, depending on where Milroe ends up being drafted at the end of this month. If that place is Cleveland, then there will be a level of those expectations placed on him, if not in 2025 than as early as 2026.

Milroe’s not exactly one who’s going to arrive in the NFL, with the Browns or elsewhere, with a Messiah complex.

“I’m not someone to try to be a savior,” Milroe said at the NFL scouting combine in early March. “I’m someone that’s just trying to better a program as a whole. So it’s all about opportunity. I would love to seize that opportunity as well and grow as a player.”

There’s been some talk of Milroe already growing as a player, just from the time he played his final game at Alabama until now. He’s teamed up with Jordan Palmer, who runs QB Summit, to help him fix many of his fundamental issues.

Those fundamental issues are why many have been critical of Milroe, despite more than 6,000 career passing yards, and more than 2,800 in each of the last two seasons. The struggles came to a head in at the Senior Bowl, where he was 3-for-5 passing for 21 yards in the game after a week of practice during which he was underwhelming in his performance.

“I know that where I’m at today, I’m going to be even better this time next year, and so everything I try to do is for the better of the team and not be one dimensional at all,” Milroe said. “When it comes to physical attributes on the football field, there’s a lot of things I can improve on, but there’s a lot of things can’t. And there’s a lot of things I can definitely say…

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Publish date : 2025-04-09 09:45:00

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