{"id":395314,"date":"2026-01-06T12:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T12:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/395314\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T12:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T12:46:11","slug":"alabama-running-back-officially-declares-for-2026-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/395314\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama running back officially declares for 2026 NFL draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/teams\/alabama-crimson-tide\/3478\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Alabama;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Alabama<\/a> running back Jam Miller has officially declared for the 2026 NFL draft, per an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jamarionmiller1_\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:announcement on social media;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">announcement on social media<\/a> Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Miller struggled in 2025 despite dealing with a number of injuries. The former four-star recruit totaled 504 rushing yards along with three touchdowns in 2025, as the Alabama run game as a whole was extremely underwhelming for the majority of the season. Miller spent all four years of his college career in Tuscaloosa, and the running back will now turn his attention towards preparing for the NFL draft later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Miller played a key role in the Alabama offense throughout the majority of his time as a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/college-sports\/sec\/alabama\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Crimson Tide;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Crimson Tide<\/a>. The former coveted prospect was ranked as the No. 6 overall running back and the No. 87 overall player from the class of 2022, per the 247Sports Composite rankings. The star running back made a major impact on the Crimson Tide throughout his four seasons in Tuscaloosa, and Miller will now look to continue his career in the NFL where he could quickly emerge as a sleeper pick in the late rounds of the draft later this spring.<\/p>\n<p>Alabama has seen a number of key players declare for the draft in recent days, as Miller is the latest Crimson Tide player to announce his departure.<\/p>\n<p>Contact\/Follow us\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/rolltidewire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@RollTideWire;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">@RollTideWire<\/a>\u00a0on X, and like our page on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RollTideWire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0to follow ongoing coverage of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/ncaab\/teams\/alabama-crimson-tide\/1284\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Alabama;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Alabama<\/a>\u00a0news, notes and opinion.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Roll Tide Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/rolltidewire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/crimson-tide\/football\/2026\/01\/06\/alabama-football-jam-miller-2026-nfl-draft\/88037330007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Alabama football running back Jam Miller declares for 2026 NFL draft;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Alabama football running back Jam Miller declares for 2026 NFL draft<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alabama running back Jam Miller has officially declared for the 2026 NFL draft, per an announcement on social&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[3368,64,63,206999,211039,593,10028,85],"class_list":["post-395314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-alabama","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-crimson-tide","tag-jam-miller","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-draft","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}