Alabama football’s wide receiver commit, Caleb Cunningham is one of the most physically gifted wideouts in the 2025 recruiting class.
The 6-foot-3, 190-pounder is a head turner with his ability to make plays after the catch and go up and snag the ball away from defenders.
Choctaw County’s head football coach Dillon Mitchell saw this from Cunningham early on.
“When I first saw Caleb, he was a freshman,” Mitchell said. “I was an offensive coordinator at a different school, and we played them in a 7-on-7 game in the summer and had heard about it him. We got out there and had a kid going up and making one-handed catches. He was different very early on, and it was obvious to to see that there was gonna be some special ability there even as a young kid.”
Off the field, the Alabama commit is not as loud as his game is on it.
“You couldn’t ask for a better young man,” Mitchell told Touchdown Alabama. “It starts with his parents. You’ve got a great mom and dad, who have raised him the right way, a very faith-centered family. He’s not a boastful kid. He’s not a big ego kid, just a blue-collar, salt of the earth, hard worker, just a joy to coach.”
Mitchell got the football to Cunningham in a variety of ways during the 2023 football season as he caught passes down the field and turned screen and hitch routes into big plays. He finished the year with 48 receptions for 1,138 yards and 14 touchdowns.
The Choctaw head coach feels this is attributed to his physical gifts.
“Right now, he’s just so much bigger, stronger, faster than 90 percent of the guys that he goes against,” said Mitchell. “Just his ability to go up and make a play on a ball and ability to come down with it, just super springy. I think that’s what the guys at the next level really see. The abilities and the things that you can’t coach are definitely there.”
With physical tools equipped, the next step for Cunningham is to fine-tune the other parts of his game.
“He’s just physically better than most of the people that he’s going up against,” Mitchell said. “When he gets to Alabama, everybody’s gonna be talented and everybody’s gonna be big, strong and fast. Once he makes it to that next level, just that drive to practice at a high level and to continue to develop as a route runner and learn the offense and things of that nature. He’s going to have to. Theirs gonna be a big adjustment at the next level, so you’re gonna have to be ready for that.”
The five-star is expected to put up big numbers for Mitchell and company in 2024.
Justin Smith is the Director of Recruiting for Touchdown Alabama Magazine. You can follow him on Twitter, via @Jdsmith31Smith
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