The start date for spring practice has not been announced. Alabama is coming off its fifth national title in nine seasons after beating Georgia in the CFP national championship game Jan.
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The touchdown was made even more impressive by the fact that the Crimson team was facing the No. Jones to Townsend for the TD. Mac Jones stands tall in the pocket, has a calm presence and finds his guys. Shortly after the yard touchdown, Hurts made one of his best plays on a yard scramble. Head coach Nick Saban clearly wanted more out of Hurts from a passing perspective, however, based on the comments he made after that run. Crimson came away with a field goal on that drive, and it entered halftime down after another make by kicker Joseph Bulovas on the heels of Jones getting intercepted by Jared Mayden.
Of the biggest game of the year. What's more, he inserted a true freshman with very few meaningful snaps and trusted him to save the day. He was erratic with his passes, was indecisive in the pocket and took too many sacks -- although sacks in spring games are rather hard to define when quarterbacks aren't "live. He was so good that Saban was caught on a hot mic praising Jones while Hurts was running with the first-team offense.
Hurts looked lost, the coaching staff lacks trust in him, his father Averion made things even more difficult this week by calling him one of the biggest free agents in college football history if he transfers and there's no sign of reversing what increasingly looks like a downward trend. To complicate matters even further, Tagovailoa's brother Taulia -- a four-star prospect in the class of -- committed to the Crimson Tide shortly before kickoff.
The dots aren't that difficult to connect. Tua Tagovailoa is Alabama's starting quarterback, as long as his hand injury doesn't linger into fall camp. Hurts is good enough to start somewhere, but his time at Alabama is coming to an end. At this point, it's a matter of when, not if. The most promising development of the spring game from a quarterback perspective is that Jones looks like a very reliable option as a backup.
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