Alabama second-year wide receiver puts consistent play this spring on display on A-Day

Alabama football’s second-year wide receiver and Las Vegas product Derek Meadows took advantage of the targets he received on A-Day, finishing the scrimmage with several catches and a receiving touchdown.

Derek Meadows was EVERYWHERE today 😳 pic.twitter.com/FHrzxgO42w

— Touchdown Alabama (@TDAlabamaMag) April 12, 2026

Meadows did not record a catch during the 2025 season, but he did earn meaningful playing time at wide receiver, including a start against LSU. Kalen DeBoer highlighted Meadows ahead of A-Day and stated the long wide receiver had been making plays all spring.

“We’ve had a lot of youth on the football field the last two years, but maybe a guy like Derek Meadows sticks out in my mind,” DeBoer said on “Hey Coach.” “You saw Lotzeir (Brooks) get on the football field at the receiver position, especially the second half of the season, but Derek is a long receiver that can really cover a lot of ground, has made a lot of nice plays here all spring.”

Ryan Coleman-Williams told reporters Saturday what Meadows put on display during the scrimmage was what he and his teammates had seen throughout the last few weeks of practice.

“Y’all seen it,” Coleman-Williams said. “It was pretty consistent and that’s what it’s been throughout the entire spring. I think we’re on practice 14 now, this is 13 or 14, and that’s pretty much who Derrick Meadows is. He’s gonna make the play, he’s gonna be in position. So really nothing that I didn’t expect. He’s a super consistent guy, always smiling, always ready to come to work every single day.”

At 6-foot-5 and 215 pounds, Meadows is the tallest wide receiver on the Crimson Tide’s roster.