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Alabama football recruiting update with TideSports.com’s Aaron Suttles
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In yesterday’s The Crimson White, we spoke with TideSports.com’s Aaron Suttles to get the latest on Alabama’s 2013 recruiting class. Check out the excerpt below:
While many of the Alabama football players are enjoying a few weeks off after final exams before getting ready for the upcoming season, head coach Nick Saban and his staff have been hot on the recruiting trail and have recently gotten commitments from a few big names.
Between May 16 and May 21, the Tide received commitments from quarterback Cooper Bateman, defensive end Darius Paige and defensive end Jonathan Allen, bringing Alabama’s total number of pledges to 14 for the class of 2013. Scout.com lists the Tide’s class as the seventh-best nationally so far, but 247 Sports has Alabama at number two, trailing only Michigan.
“The 2013 class, these guys have watched Alabama on the TV a lot. They’ve seen them play in the national championship,” said Aaron Suttles, senior recruiting analyst for TideSports.com, part of the Rivals network. “Alabama right now is really hot for a lot of different reasons…they’re putting guys in the League, and they’re proving it, and that’s really important to a lot of these kids.”
To read the rest of the story, head over to The Crimson White’s website.
Jonathan Allen, 5-star DE, commits to Alabama
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Just two days after landing three-star defensive end Darius Paige, Alabama has done it again, this time getting a commitment from five-star defensive end Jonathan Allen, according to Bama Online.
Allen made a visit to Tuscaloosa this past weekend and committed to the Tide shortly after returning.
“I felt like at the end of the day, Alabama is the best fit for me,” Allen told Bama Online. “I felt that in three years, I’d be more developed if I went there than anywhere else.”
247 Sports rates the Ashburn, Va. prospect as a five-star prospect with a grade of 98, making him the tenth-best prospect in the country among any position. He is also listed as the No. 1 defensive end and No. 1 player from the state of Virginia.