Alabama football’s defensive lineman wants to re-introduce himself after season-ending injury

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Jeremiah Beaman was on track to be a key member of the Alabama defensive front during the 2025 college football season.

His teammates were praising him, the Tide’s coaching staff was speaking highly of him, and he earned the nod to start for the Tide against Florida State to open the season once Tim Keenan went down with an injury.

Beaman was known as a defensive lineman who tended not to stay blocked in his pursuit of the quarterback. He recorded quarterback hurries in each of his first two games of meaningful action in his career before he was met with a major obstacle.

Alabama DL Jeremiah Beaman recorded a QB hurry in each of his 2 games of meaningful action.

After bulking up to 300 pounds, coaches & players had high hopes for him in 2025 before his injury.

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The former four-star prospect went down with a knee injury ahead of the second start of his career.

“When the injury first happened, he called me, his mom and his dad, and he was emotional,” Beaman’s trainer and mentor Leonard Stephens said. “I don’t think it’s nothing but God that the guys around him, who are mentors, have been through similar situations and in that moment, I let him cry. I didn’t tell him don’t cry. I looked at him on FaceTime, and I told him, “You know who you are, and I said you are in a unique spot. I said God has put you where you’re gonna be able to grow as a leader, grow through mental reps, be able to become who it is that God wants you to be.” He stopped crying. He wiped his face, sitting in the hospital room. He was just like let’s do it.”

Beaman would miss the rest of the season and eventually rehab his injury. He returned to the field in the spring for the Tide and looked to be on track to make a full return in the fall.

Stephens has been working with Beaman this offseason and feels the defensive lineman is a bit ahead of schedule.

“He’s definitely ahead of schedule,” Stephens told Touchdown Alabama. “I won’t put a time or window on it, but I will say he’s ahead of schedule. He was full speed during speed work on Wednesday, and we’re not talking like jogging. We’re talking full sprint. We’re working on deceleration, which he’s doing a good job at. He’s done a great job with the staff down in Tuscaloosa doing it. He’s not missing a beat.”

Alabama Redshirt Sophomore DL Jeremiah Beaman looks ready to bounce back from his season-ending injury.

The Birmingham native is 6-foot-4 and 300 pounds.

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Playing at Alabama comes with its fair share of expectations. Beaman is well aware of those expectations, and he is also aware of his own high standards as one of the hardest working prospects Touchdown Alabama has ever covered.

“His expectations for himself are to introduce himself to not only Alabama fans but the rest of the world to who Jeremiah Beaman is,” Stephens said. “I feel like for so long throughout high school and throughout the first couple of years, everybody had an idea, everybody had an assumption. Everybody has their own expectations, but I’ll tell you his expectations are to get out and dominate. I don’t think we’re really worried about a depth chart. I think you know a lot of things that the fans worry about preseason and things of that nature is the pre-season depth chart talk, but his camp expect him to get out and dominate and introduce himself to the world and let them know who Jeremiah is because if they think they think they were excited about who he was in one game last year, they have not seen anything yet.”

Alabama fans should expect Beaman to play a vital role for the Tide up front in the fall.