Alabama football will undoubtedly go shopping in the transfer portal like most top college football programs have made the norm.
The Crimson Tide signed 21 prospects to kick off the early signing period. DeBoer had a press conference Wednesday to discuss the class, and he shined a light on a couple of positions Alabama could target in the portal in the future.
“There is an understanding there’s still position groups that might be a guy or two just short on the numbers that we really feel strong about,” DeBoer said. “Looking at the first one, offensive line. We have four offensive linemen coming in. We were well below what we really felt we need on a team, a roster of scholarship guys this year. Defensive back would have been another one. I think you are confident to an extent in today’s day and age. I think there’s always surprises, but I think that there will be a level of retention that’s different than what we went through a year ago because of the transition and the craziness with the changes and all that happened here. I think there will be retention. There’s going to be guys that do move on and there’s obviously guys that making decisions to go on to the NFL too.”
Alabama now awaits the result of the conference championship games Saturday to find out what its future has in store.
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