Jam Miller knows what Ryan Grubb wants out of Alabama football’s running back room. Bring physicality.
“No matter what we do,” Miller said. “Pass protection or running the ball. Just always being physical.”
In Grubb’s mind, physicality works in all shapes and sizes in an Alabama running back room that is returning its leading back in Miller, but for an offense that is losing its main performer in the ground game: quarterback Jalen Milroe.
Pair that with Grubb, a coordinator who led a Seattle Seahawks offense that was one of five NFL teams to average less than 100 yards rushing per game, and you have an aspect of the Alabama offense with its share of question marks.
The pieces are there, Grubb said.
Grubb predicts “at least three guys are going to get considerable reps” in the running back room. Miller is the leader, the “super smart player” who is physical with “good top-end speed.”
Then there’s Daniel Hill, the bigger, physical downhill back, and Richard Young, and Dre Washington.
But it’s also more than just names for Alabama’s running back room.
It’s about creating production for a room that had six games in 2024 where it had more than 100 yards rushing by themselves, that had only two games all season where an Alabama back had a 100-yard performance. That production will be all the more helpful with an offense with a new quarterback at the helm, one that will not have the same dual-threat mentality as Milroe did no matter who the starter is.
Grubb feels the biggest thing in Alabama’s favor is a running back room filled with players who know who they are.
“I think the big thing, they all have their style of running that they are good at,” Grubb said.
Alabama coach Kalen DeBoer took things a step further. After the first fall practice, the Alabama head coach said the running back room is “healthier than they probably…
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