Alabama Football: Post-Spring Depth Chart

Alabama football excited fans with an explosive offense in the A-Day game. Let’s take a deep dive into the post-spring two-deep depth chart.

Alabama football fans have justification for optimism coming out of the 2017 spring season. The 2017 Alabama football roster is deep with elite and potentially elite players. Nick Saban’s post A-Day one-word assessment was the 2017 team is adequate, not elite.

Assuming Nick’s assessment is a combination of candid and calculating, it is worthwhile to notice what he did not say. Nick never came close to suggesting the 2017 Alabama football team cannot become elite. Nick said as reported by rolltide.com.

"“I don’t mean that in a negative way because I think we’ve come out of the spring in a lot of years where we don’t have an elite team. It’s how the team responds through the summer and fall camp because we’re going to play an elite team in the first game. What kind of commitment each guy makes to being an elite player, affecting himself in a positive way, and affecting his unit in a positive way is going to determine how we all affect our team in a positive way which ultimately will lead to what kind of team we really have.”"

Was Nick preaching to his team? No doubt. Was he reaching for an edge against FSU by stating the opponent is elite? Perhaps but more likely he was expanding a message to his players to not let up over the summer. Trust the process. Commit to the process.

Adequate, with a chance to become elite. That’s not a bad place for Alabama football coming out of spring practice.

There will be competition for two-deep slots throughout the late summer and maybe well into the season. The ones are not completely settled. Even less settled are the twos. Additionally, many position groups are driven by playing rotation.

The running backs, receivers and tight ends rotate. So does most of the defense, particularly the front seven. The result being the two-deep on offense and defense is close to 52 players.

Add special team kickers, snappers and returners and the two-deep depth chart is about 58 players. Let’s take a look at the post-spring depth chart, broken down by position groups.