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Alabama Football: Who signs in the Early Signing period?

By Ronald Evans

TUSCALOOSA, AL - SEPTEMBER 17: Fans cheer as coach Nick Saban leads the Alabama Crimson Tide out of the locker room for a game against North Texas on September 17, 2011 at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. (Photo by Butch Dill/Getty Images)
TUSCALOOSA, AL - SEPTEMBER 17: Fans cheer as coach Nick Saban leads the Alabama Crimson Tide out of the locker room for a game against North Texas on September 17, 2011 at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. (Photo by Butch Dill/Getty Images) /
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The new NCAA Early Signing period begins on Dec. 20th. Check out our projection of who will join the Alabama football 2018 class.

A new era of NCAA football recruitment reaches a milestone with the Early Signing Period December 20-22. The Alabama football 2018 Signing Class will not be complete at the end of the early period. More signees will be added in February on what has been historically defined by the NCAA as National Signing Day.

Alabama football is expected to fill more than half of its 2018 class in the early period. Listed below are the players we project to ink their name to the Crimson Tide in the early period.

Projected Early Signing Period Signees

All the player ratings below are from the 247Sports Composite.

  1. Jarez Parks – Parks was a 4-Star, Top 100 player in 2017. He was rated the No. 7 best WDE in the 2017 class. Late in the process, the Tide had no room for Jarez. He accepted a grayshirt option when he could have signed with other top schools. He is already in Tuscaloosa and participating in CFB Playoff practices.
  2. Cameron Latu – 4-Star, No. 7 WDE
  3. Emil Ekiyor – 4-Star, No. 2 Center
  4. Jalyn Armour-Davis – 4-Star, No. 16 CB
  5. Nadab Joseph – 4-Star No. 18 CB
  6. Jordan Davis – 4-Star, No. 5 WDE
  7. Stephon Wynn – 4-Star, No. 3 SDE
  8. Tommy Brown – 4- Star, No. 12 OT
  9. Xavier Williams – 4-Star, No. 26 WR
  10. Saivion Smith – 4-Star, No, 1 JUCO CB. As a transfer, Smith is also already practicing with the team.
  11. Josh Jobe – 4-Star, No. 13 CB
  12. Skyler DeLong – 3-Star, No. 2 Punter
  13. Slade Bolden – 3-Star. No. 11 APB
  14. Jerome Ford – 3-Star, No. 14 APB

In addition to these 14 players, Alabama football has three additional 2018 commits who will not sign early.

  1. Quay Walker – 4-Star, No. 3 OLB
  2. Vernon Jackson – 3-Star, No. 30 ATH (projected to play linebacker for the Tide)
  3. Michael Parker – 3-Star, No. 43 TE

There are two additional members of the 2018 class who were 2017 blueshirts.

  1. Hunter Brannon – 3 Star, No. 12 Center
  2. Joseph Bulovas – 3-Star, No. 6 Kicker

Other Possible Early Signees

  • Eyabi Anoma – 5-Star, No. 2 WDE and No. 7 Overall player in the nation. Anoma will announce on Dec. 22nd and may sign the same day. We project Anoma will join the 2018 class.
  • Brenton Cox – 5-Star, No. 2 SDE and No. 22 Overall player in the nation. Cox will announce on Dec. 20th and we project either UGA or the Tide. Best guess – Georgia.
  • Dominick Wood-Anderson – 4-Star, No. 1 JUCO TE. Wood-Anderson will announce on Dec. 20th. We could predict as many as five different final choices for Dominick. Best guess – 50 percent chance he picks the Tide.
  • Emory Jones – 4-Star, No. 4 rated Dual QB. A longtime commit to Ohio State that Alabama football has recruited hard. Best guess – Florida.

Numbers have been and will continue to be tight but Nick Saban always makes it work. There are up to 10 more top recruits the Tide wants to sign in February. We believe room will be made for several of them.

After the Early Signing Period concludes we will update the other recruit possibilities for the 2018 class.

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Check in with is often on Dec. 20th and throughout the Early Signing Period. We will confirm each signee as the paperwork is released by the University. In addition, we will publish in-depth, individual posts of each 2018 signee. There are some great stories about these young men that Alabama football fans will enjoy.

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