Mac Jones – Noteworthy
Alabama’s quarterback competition this spring contains two Tagovailoas, including one who was the Heisman Trophy runner-up last season, and Bear Bryant’s great-grandson. Also in the mix is Mac Jones, a redshirt sophomore who is the primary backup to starter Tua Tagovailoa and will seek to fend off challenges from early enrollees Taulia Tagovailoa and Paul Tyson. Last season’s Southeastern Conference champions held their first spring workout Friday afternoon and won’t practice again until March 18, when the university returns from spring break. “We want to get every guy a good shot and a good evaluation,” Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban said Friday evening in a news conference.<p>”We feel like Mac has made a lot of progress since he’s been here. He really played well, especially at the beginning of the year last year, when he was getting a lot of reps in fall camp. “Toward the end of the year, he didn’t really have the opportunity to progress like we would have liked, but he’s going to get every opportunity to do that now.” The 6-foot-2, 205-pounder from The Bolles School in Jacksonville, Florida, played in 14 of 15 games last season, missing only the 45-23 triumph over Texas A&M in late September. Most of those appearances occurred as the holder on kicks, but he had his moments as the third-team quarterback behind Tagovailoa and Jalen Hurts, who transferred to Oklahoma in January for his final college season.
