\u201cAny time you commit to a place like Alabama, you have to fit the physical build,\u201d Parker says. The first thing you see with Anthony are his long arms. He has heavy hands in his punch and he\u2019s pretty athletic for his size. The type of player they are getting is one who wants to be great and is committed to his craft.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe loves the game of football,\u201d Parker continued. \u201cHe is very, very humble. I think they are getting a selfless player who, I can\u2019t say this enough, wants to be the best and his goals for himself. He has drive. He also has a great demeanor for the position. His teammates can rally around him because he\u2019s not a me guy. He\u2019s never asked for this, but in his daily habits, he\u2019s learning to speak up and be a leader. He\u2019s taking on new challenges as he transitions from a young player to an upperclassman and he wants to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Blalock\u2019s got on college radars after this past season, where he started every game as a sophomore. Kentucky, Ohio State, Texas Tech, Florida State and others offered.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis freshman year, he sprinkled in on varsity and helped us out. That was his first taste,\u201d Parker said. \u201cHis sophomore year, he was the full-time starter. After that year, he started to get the high-level recognition so now he needs to be elevated on every single detail of every single day. That was new for him as he realized he had to sharpen up and be at his best every day because any weaknesses that coaches or evaluators would see, he had to address those and he\u2019s done a great job with that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAny time you commit to a place like Alabama, you have to fit the physical build,\u201d Parker says.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,281396,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-764001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-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\/764001","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=764001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}