Poll: Who is your starting and Back-up QB for the 2025 season?

[Tidewater]

Playing time is strictly on the coach. CNS had the same sort of issues with substituting players in my opinion.

One of the few things I could criticize CNS on.
That and he coached as if he earned a $500,000 bonus for each first half time-out he did not use.

 

[22Musso22]

Keelon is my starter. No brainer really. They will start Ty and also want to implement Mack into this guy's system. Hope Keelon is patient...LOL!

 

[UAH]

I voted Ty for two reasons.

First, my heart. He's been loyal and waited his turn when 99.99% of other QBs in today's world would have bailed. He deserves the spot unless someone else is demonstrably better. IOW, he gets the benefit of any doubt.

Second, my head. It's just tough for a true freshman QB to come in and play championship football from the first game. Too much of a learning curve. That said, I hope Mack and especially Russell get enough reps to climb that learning curve.

I totally agree with a true freshman being expected to start. Some on here had Sayin starting as a freshman and we kind of know how that turned out. It is hard for me to know what drove Ty to stay at Alabama. That decision could have cost him millions! Klubnik who was rated close to Simpson out of high school has started for two years and is looking to the NFL draft. Regardless Ty has gotten a pretty tough deal with BOB leaving almost the moment he signed.

 

[CrimsonTitles]

Playing time is strictly on the coach. CNS had the same sort of issues with substituting players in my opinion.

I'm not ready to say that DeBoer won't play the backup QBs more than Saban did. If there really was some sort deal in place for Milroe to be the starter and hold the team together, than I'm not sure it would have been smart to give Simpson any more playing time than he did. If Simpson gets more live reps and plays well, then you have a potential crisis on your hands, especially if the starter had the support of the locker room. He may handle the backup QB reps differently now.

 

[4Q Basket Case]

Keelon is my starter. No brainer really. They will start Ty and also want to implement Mack into this guy's system. Hope Keelon is patient...LOL!

I’m curious….why do you say Russell is a no-brainer choice?

 

[22Musso22]

I’m curious….why do you say Russell is a no-brainer choice?

I think he has more upside than the other 2. Speed, Stronger arm and more elusive. From my video study, he may be the next Jayden Daniels. Of course will that translate to college football? Who knows? I think it will. Camp will decide that.

 

[gtgilbert]

I think he has more upside than the other 2. Speed, Stronger arm and more elusive. From my video study, he may be the next Jayden Daniels. Of course will that translate to college football? Who knows? I think it will. Camp will decide that.

I'm pretty optimistic about KR also, and Daniels isn't a bad comparison. Daniels really emerged late in year 4 and year 5 of his college career though, and I could see a similar path for KR. Give him a year or two to learn and adjust to the college game, which is what most of our best QBs in recent memory have had. It's a big jump from level to level and it seems QBs who are pushed into playing early don't always develop to their full potential, or at least have a much harder time getting there, than guys who get some development time under their belts.

 

[BamaMoon]

I voted for Ty, but I do think Keelon in the first QB since Tua that has the raw talent to be able to start as a true freshman.

Probably better if he doesn't have to play as a starter this early, but it is comforting to know he has the raw skills to step in if it happened that way.

 

[jjv0004]

If Keelon starts I think we are in trouble. True freshman quarterbacks don't start and have success their freshman seasons. You can't find one in the history of college football that led their team to a championship as a full year starter. Yes, I realize Tua came in for 1/2 of a championship game.

 

[BamaMoon]

If Keelon starts I think we are in trouble. True freshman quarterbacks don't start and have success their freshman seasons. You can't find one in the history of college football that led their team to a championship as a full year starter. Yes, I realize Tua came in for 1/2 of a championship game.

Agreed 100%.

It's only because of his incredible potential this is even being mentioned. And I only think it would happen in the case of TS having a season ending injury. And even then, there's Mack who has 2 years in the system who could be a potential replacement.

 

[bravo6]

Maybe. (I'm not trying to pick a fight with you on this), but when Bama is up by several scores in the 3rd quarter, why not play the back-up QB with the entire playbook? I realize the starter needs reps, but so does the backup QB. I doubt there would have been a mutiny in that circumstance.
The fact that the Bama heir-apparent has been in the program three years and only thrown 50 passes shows the folly of not letting the back-up play.

I totally agree that QB2 should have gotten a TON more reps last season. It just seems that ANY scholarship QB2 should have gotten more reps than Simpson did.

 

[colbysullivan]

We should be in year 3 of Ty as the starter. I haven’t rooted for a player to succeed this much in a long time.

 

[Bamabuzzard]

At this stage of the spring, everybody's opinion is about as valid as the next, so here goes mine. I think if Keelon Russell starts, we can count another three loss regular season at the least. The list of true freshmen who come in, start right away, and go 10-2 or better in the SEC is short, very short. So if he's starting when September rolls around, it means Ty and Mack weren't that good more than it does Keelon is that great. The more likely scenario is Ty or Mack wins the job, Keelon MAY, MAY get a few snaps during the regular season in mop up duty. But overall he gets in the weight room, gets in the playbook and makes the most of his freshman practice reps. If he's truly as good as advertised, he'll be ripe to push for starting reps next season.