Jalen Milroe, Ryan Williams, and the math problem giving defenses fits

It's simple addition. 4 (Jalen Milroe) + 2 (Ryan Williams) = 6 (touchdown). But it's that simple addition that is driving defenses nuts through the first month of the college football season, and has the Alabama offense in high gear.

Ryan Williams is 17-years-old, in case you hadn't been beaten over the head by that fact by every broadcast this season. Of course, it's hard to blame anyone for repeating it; it's the most absurd part of what he is doing. Williams already looks like one of the best players - not just freshmen - in the entire country. There just aren't enough superlatives to use for the phenom.

Williams has only been on campus at Alabama for three months. He didn't enroll in the summer after graduating early and reclassifying into the 2024 recruiting class. Three months on a college campus, and in his fourth game he victimized a secondary filled with future NFL players, and a defense coached by arguably the best coach in college football in Kirby Smart.

Williams looks like a multi-year NFL All-Pro as a 17-year-old freshman. What's he going to look like as a junior? That thought is keeping SEC defensive coaches up at night.

Tide quarterback Jalen Milroe has developed a fast rapport with Williams. Milroe knows who to look for when his back is against the wall. If Williams gets one-on-one, regardless of who the defensive back is lined up across from him, Milroe is going to throw it to him.

Take the miraculous tipped-catch made by Williams in the third quarter. The defensive back he's one-on-one with there is Malachi Starks, one of the best players in the entire country and a likely first round pick in the 2025 NFL Draft.

And on the game-winning touchdown pass, Milroe took a peak and saw the one-on-one coverage and took his shot. Milroe delivered a strike, but Williams did the rest. Williams made the catch at the Georgia 46-yard-line, and then showed off his full bag of skills.

It was a terrific catch and throw to begin with, and if Williams would have simply just fallen down after that it would have been a big play. But the kid is brazen and sure of himself.

Williams secures the catch, spins back inside to race down the sideline, pulls out a ridiculous start-stop move that has two Georgia defenders running right into each other, and then shows off the acceleration by outrunning the rest to the endzone.

I mean, come on! Someone check that kid's birth certificate. He plays like a 25-year-old NFL veteran, not a 17-year-old freshman with four games of experience under his belt.

For the season, Williams is at 16 catches for 462 yards and 5 touchdowns. He's on pace to shatter Calvin Ridley's freshman receiving record at Alabama. A true freshman has never won the Biletnikoff before, but that's in jeopardy, too. He has to be high on the list after what he did to Georgia on Saturday night.

Milroe and Williams have both writ their names in crimson flame. They continue to become a prominent Alabama QB-WR duo, like Bryce Young and Jameson Williams, or Mac Jones and DeVonta Smith, or Tua Tagovailoa and Jerry Jeudy.

Milroe had his moment, too, He played like he wanted: fast, free, and fearless. He stared the vaunted Georgia defense in the face and didn't blink. The Bulldogs hadn't given up a touchdown all season heading into to Tuscaloosa. It took Milore less than five-minutes and one drive to change that.

Milroe led Alabama on touchdown drives on the first four possessions of the game. He ran two, and threw a dart to Jam Miller on a wheel route for a 16-yard touchdown. The offense became a bit too conservative and stagnant in the second half, but when the Crimson Tide needed a play, was there any doubt that the QB was going to deliver?

His touchdown to Williams extended his streak of at least two passing and two rushing touchdowns to four straight games to open the season. Level of competition can no longer be used against him; he torched Georgia, proving once again that he has taken the leap.

Milroe accounted for 491 yards of offense - 89% of what the Crimson Tide produced on Satuday night. Kalen DeBoer and Nick Sheridan have built the whole plane out of Jalen Milroe. He put the team on his back, throwing for 374 yards and running for 117 more.

This team will go as far as Milroe can take them, and he can take them all the way.

Especially with his partner-in-crime, the second part of the most devastating math equation in college football this season.

"He know four plus two equal six," Williams said in regards to Milroe. "And I know four plus two equal six."

The entire country knows that equation now, too, and they're powerless to stop it.