{"id":658865,"date":"2026-05-22T17:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/658865\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T17:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:33:12","slug":"alabama-football-cbs-writer-has-keelon-russell-as-sec-best-qb-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/658865\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama football: CBS writer has Keelon Russell as SEC best QB for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">The Crimson Tide sits No. 38 in 247Sports composite rankings, which factor in other recruiting services. The majority of the teams currently ranked higher than Alabama have significantly more commitments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Oklahoma has 21 commitments, and is currently leading both the SEC and the nation for the 2027 class. Texas A&amp;M and Notre Dame follow the Sooners, with Miami and Florida rounding out the top five.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Alabama\u2019s group currently is 14th in the SEC on the 247 composite. The schools ahead of UA also have more players currently committed to their 2027 classes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">In terms of average player rating, the Crimson Tide fares far better. Alabama sits 14th in the nation in that metric.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Crimson Tide sits No. 38 in 247Sports composite rankings, which factor in other recruiting services. The majority&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[283814,35956,274079,399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-658865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-alabama-crimson-tide-baseball","tag-alabama-crimson-tide-football","tag-alabama-crimson-tide-softball","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658865","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=658865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}