{"id":733082,"date":"2026-06-29T15:35:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/733082\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T15:35:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:35:19","slug":"alabama-football-kalen-deboer-lands-top-100-wr-prospect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/733082\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama football: Kalen DeBoer lands top 100 WR prospect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">The five-star running back and Mr. Football winner reclassified to the 2026 class and joined the Crimson Tide this past spring. Despite being a freshman, he might be Alabama\u2019s best hope of reviving its run game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cHe\u2019s the best I\u2019ve ever seen in high school,\u201d Philip Rivers (yes that Philip Rivers) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/highschoolsports\/2025\/11\/no-1-st-michael-no-2-jackson-aiming-to-score-a-lot-of-points-in-class-4a-rematch.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">told AL.com before coaching against him in November<\/a>. \u201cI am looking through a different lens obviously. I think back to when I was 17 and what it would be like to try to tackle Cadillac Williams. I think I would rather try to tackle Cadillac than this guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">In what should have been his junior year, Crowell ran 209 times for 2,632 yards, an average of 12.6 yards per carry, en route to being named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/highschoolsports\/2026\/01\/alabama-signee-jackson-star-ej-crowell-named-alabamas-2025-mr-football.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">the 2025 Mr. Football for the state<\/a> in his final year of high school football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">That\u2019s not SEC football, but Crowell is known for his physicality. That\u2019s needed in the tough conference, which is why his former coaches aren\u2019t worried about Crowell being ready this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cIt\u2019s just like taking a Ray Lewis and putting him at running back,\u201d Martin said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The five-star running back and Mr. Football winner reclassified to the 2026 class and joined the Crimson Tide&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[35956,399,281396,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-733082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-alabama-crimson-tide-football","tag-football","tag-jumbo-package","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733082","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=733082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}