2025 Alabama football Roster Update Going Into Fall

[gtgilbert]

Yup.

Yes he missed spring because of injuries and that's why he gained weight. He couldn't just work out like he wanted to. The year before, he wasn't 100 percent. I think everyone needs to realize that we really don't always know the whole story behind the scene, but we're so quick to blame that person for something and act like we know what's going on with that person, but really we don't. I expect Proctor to stay healthy and I think we'll see different version of him that we hadn't seen in a while, and it'll tell a whole story at that point.

I'm sure being injured didn't help his cause, although it was an upper body injury so there was no reason he couldn't do some type of conditioning to try to maintain his weight, BUT something tells me a good bit of weight gain had a lot more to do with choices like this:

 

[JustNeedMe81]

I'm sure being injured didn't help his cause, although it was an upper body injury so there was no reason he couldn't do some type of conditioning to try to maintain his weight, BUT something tells me a good bit of weight gain had a lot more to do with choices like this:
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His nutrition diet, Amy.... They did an article on how she manage player's diet.... I'm pretty sure what we saw in IG lost... Was for advertising... Not necessarily tell the truth. So take caution with what you see being posted.

 

[JustNeedMe81]

I'm sure being injured didn't help his cause, although it was an upper body injury so there was no reason he couldn't do some type of conditioning to try to maintain his weight, BUT something tells me a good bit of weight gain had a lot more to do with choices like this:
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https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/sports/college/sec/university-of-alabama/article29141542.html

Replacing fluids, electrolytes and sodium takes precedent in the evenings, just as designing the menu for the rest of the day. Bragg has seen athletes burn through as many as 7,000 to 8,000 calories per day while the average during a football preseason is closer to 4,000 or 5,000 daily.

Diets also vary greatly from one player to the next.

The skill positions — receivers, running backs, defensive backs — require more carbohydrates while linemen consume much more protein “to be massive and not get pushed around,” Bragg said.

 

[gtgilbert]

https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/sports/college/sec/university-of-alabama/article29141542.html

Replacing fluids, electrolytes and sodium takes precedent in the evenings, just as designing the menu for the rest of the day. Bragg has seen athletes burn through as many as 7,000 to 8,000 calories per day while the average during a football preseason is closer to 4,000 or 5,000 daily.

Diets also vary greatly from one player to the next.

The skill positions — receivers, running backs, defensive backs — require more carbohydrates while linemen consume much more protein “to be massive and not get pushed around,” Bragg said.

but you missed the two best parts of the article:

"A typical day for a football player begins with breakfast options including an omelet bar, cereal, toast, oatmeal, ham, steak and fluids. For lunch, there is a salad bar, deli bar and two entries. The linemen will get a higher calorie option, such as brisket, while the others get something on the lean side, such as chicken breast"

Not a single reference to eating THREE taco burgers, enchiladas, tacos, with corn tortillas and white queso sauce in one sitting. That's a LONG way from brisket being the 'high calorie' option.

and then:

"Managing body composition was one of Bragg’s directives upon accepting the job. For example, she said, a lineman that weighs 300 pounds with 75 pounds of body fat is in good shape. Add an extra body-fat pounds, and performance suffers and endurance drops. Offensive tackle D.J. Fluker is a model of a player who drastically improved his ratio, although most of his progress was made before Bragg’s hire. He weighed close to 400 pound when arriving in Tuscaloosa last summer, but the 6-foot-6 lineman dropped 75 pounds and now carries a manageable 23 percent body fat."

So according to her, massive is a player who lost weight to get down to about 325. that's still an extremely large human. Proctor is FORTY pounds more than that. I could be wrong, but I don't see him being anywhere around the 23-25% body fat mark. I'd guess to get into that range he'd have to lose at least 25-30 pounds of body fat.

 

[JustNeedMe81]

but you missed the two best parts of the article:

"A typical day for a football player begins with breakfast options including an omelet bar, cereal, toast, oatmeal, ham, steak and fluids. For lunch, there is a salad bar, deli bar and two entries. The linemen will get a higher calorie option, such as brisket, while the others get something on the lean side, such as chicken breast"

Not a single reference to eating THREE taco burgers, enchiladas, tacos, with corn tortillas and white queso sauce in one sitting. That's a LONG way from brisket being the 'high calorie' option.

and then:

"Managing body composition was one of Bragg’s directives upon accepting the job. For example, she said, a lineman that weighs 300 pounds with 75 pounds of body fat is in good shape. Add an extra body-fat pounds, and performance suffers and endurance drops. Offensive tackle D.J. Fluker is a model of a player who drastically improved his ratio, although most of his progress was made before Bragg’s hire. He weighed close to 400 pound when arriving in Tuscaloosa last summer, but the 6-foot-6 lineman dropped 75 pounds and now carries a manageable 23 percent body fat."

So according to her, massive is a player who lost weight to get down to about 325. that's still an extremely large human. Proctor is FORTY pounds more than that. I could be wrong, but I don't see him being anywhere around the 23-25% body fat mark. I'd guess to get into that range he'd have to lose at least 25-30 pounds of body fat.

You're missing the point I made . And that's okay. I'm not going back and forth on this.

Proctor is doing fine and there's no concern with his weight within the locker room.

 

[Ledsteplin]

You're missing the point I made . And that's okay. I'm not going back and forth on this.

Proctor is doing fine and there's no concern with his weight within the locker room.

I think he'll be fine. I'm pretty sure Amy and David are aware of Kayden's weight. They know what to do.

 

[bravo6]

Quick position group thoughts:

OL: 8 of the 13 listed gained weight. I know there was a thought that we'd be going smaller/lighter, but the definition of lighter might still be heavier than we thought initially with the average listed weight being 324 which includes Proctor as a super heavy outlier. Brailsford isn't listed as gaining or losing (curious) so he'd bring that down some since he's just 290 and our only scholarship guy under 305, but our 2 deep other than those two are in the 320-330 range.

Interior DL. slightly lighter, but still trending toward 300+ (I excluded Hill as I think he's still a tweaner Bandit/DL). All but 1 added weight.

Bandit: More spread here, but between 265-280 with a couple (Henry +20, Collins -10) making big moves to get into that range. This is the biggest change from the Saban era. Under Saban we'd just run three bigs (IDL) OR, 2 OLBs so depending on the situation in the past we'd either be bigger or smaller on average across the front. This is probably a better balance, and as Jess has mentioned, it's likely we still have a 2OLB package and also will run a "heavy" group taking out the OLBs and putting in 2 Bandits.

ILB: pretty narrow range with everyone being +/- 5 from 230 (other than Reese at 224) . Not a big change from what we are used to. maybe slightly smaller, but just barely. The gains and losses put most players into the 225-230 range.

WOLF: Like Bandit - a bigger spread. All are a few pounds +/- from 245 other than Latham being the big exception at 262, having lost a boat load of weight to get to that. All others listed have been adding weight so it would appear the preference is 245 or greater, so maybe just slightly lighter than the Jack/Sam prototype but it's a bit hard to say b/c 1) it's a small(ish) group, 2) we moved Latham over to get beef, AND 3) will likely play a 2 Bandit package to be heavier. It could be that the staff prefers a slightly bigger body type than we currently have and just haven't been able to get there yet.

RB: Only one guy sub 210. Not much of a change.

TE: All but Lindsay gained weight, and he only lost a couple down to 255. The lone sub 250 guy was also the biggest gainer (Pritchett, +13 to 248) and only Edwards at 264 is meaningfully above 255 with no significant difference (at least in weight) between guys expected to play H versus Y. Maybe a merge to where it's just TE, and we expect guys to be able to play either spot to allow more flexibility, or the staff is thinking they'll be using more 11 personnel.

QB: no meaningful movement, I'd have like Russell to add a bit more TBH, but he's young with time.

DB: All the DBs but Taylor and Sabb added weight and they were just -1. Doesn't appear to be a big change from our prior preferences.

WR: All over the board, which I think is pretty normal given the different spots and roles for outside/slot, etc.

I've heard that DeBoer's nutrition program is a lot cleaner and healthier than what Saban had in place. Perhaps the body composition has made a change for the better.

 

[gtgilbert]

I've heard that DeBoer's nutrition program is a lot cleaner and healthier than what Saban had in place. Perhaps the body composition has made a change for the better.

Saban put a huge focus on body composition. In the article mentioned in the earlier in the thread it's mentioned as one of the main things Saban had Amy Bragg focus on early on, as far back as 2010. Also, looking at what Proctor is eating doesn't sound all that clean compared to what Saban having the big guys eat brisket as their 'high calorie' option.