{"id":323233,"date":"2025-12-01T00:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T00:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/323233\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T00:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T00:37:07","slug":"kalen-deboer-gives-explanation-for-ryan-williams-lack-of-targets-in-iron-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/323233\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalen DeBoer gives explanation for Ryan Williams&#8217; lack of targets in Iron Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alabama sophomore wide receiver Ryan Williams was <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/alabama\/Article\/how-many-snaps-did-ryan-williams-play-against-auburn-in-the-iron-bowl-264041544\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">not targeted<\/a> despite playing 37 of a possible 73 offensive snaps in Saturday&#8217;s Iron Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first time Williams finished a game without a target in his two seasons, but coach Kalen DeBoer on Sunday cautioned against drawing conclusions from it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was out there,&#8221; DeBoer said Sunday. &#8220;There was really nothing to read into there, at all. I think there were opportunities where the ball could have found him. Plays where &#8212; it&#8217;s not like they&#8217;re designed specifically for him. That&#8217;s really not how a lot of our offense is. There might be screens and things like that that are intentionally trying to get touches. But as far as the pass concepts, just we didn&#8217;t get to him in the route or things like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Quarterback Ty Simpson threw 35 passes, with 10 targets credited to Germie Bernard, six to Isaiah Horton and four to Lotzeir Brooks &#8212; three receivers who all received more snaps than Williams in the game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We got to be intentional, because he&#8217;s a playmaker for us,&#8221; DeBoer continued. &#8220;The ball did find some other guys, and they made plays like you saw with Isaiah Horton. We want to continue to be intentional. Ryan does a great job for us each and every week for us preparing. There was no difference this week.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alabama sophomore wide receiver Ryan Williams was not targeted despite playing 37 of a possible 73 offensive snaps&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-323233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}