Ryan Grubb feels Ty Simpson has earned the right to be Alabama football’s starting quarterback if the Crimson Tide played tomorrow.
Grubb revealed this Monday during his post-spring press conference.
“At the end of the day, if we’re playing a football game tomorrow, Ty Simpson would start,” Grubb said. “He earned that”
The Alabama offensive coordinator also shared he was pleased with the quarterback room as a whole with Austin Mack and Keelon Russell continuing to improve.
“I was super happy with all three of them,” Grubb told reporters. “I think that from a competitive standpoint, that’s the first thing you want to see is do all three guys have the competitive stamina to play the position? Because if you’re not ready for that type of scrutiny and that type of just the competition level that you need to have and the mindset that you need to have as a quarterback to play at any level, much less in the SEC here at Alabama. I think that those guys showed that, that competitive stamina every day. As far as development, I thought all three of them have different strengths and weaknesses that we were working on, trying to celebrate the strengths and really work on some of the weaknesses and obviously you have a wide range there from a first-year player in Keelon to a guy like Ty that’s been around the block and kind of middle of the road as far as experience is Austin. So, I thought from those parameters, how the guys got together and worked together on building their own game I thought was really impressive and and for us. I thought that was the starting point is just how do you get each guy to grow in their each individual, and they did a good job with it.”
The Tide has not named a starting quarterback yet.
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