Believe it or not, today is the fifth Early Signing Period for college football since the inaugural one in 2017. Alabama finished fifth in the nation in recruiting that year but that class included guys like Patrick Surtain II, Jaylen Waddle, Christian Barmore, Jalyn Armour-Davis among others who would win a National Championship in 2020 as juniors. Due to the widespread criticism of this poorly timed signing period, it might be the last one held in December, thank goodness.
TV COVERAGE
- The SEC Network picks up their live coverage at 11am/noon and run until Finebaum takes over at 2pm/3pm.
- ESPN2 will takeover at that time with several Bama prospects making announcements and go until 4pm/5pm.
COMMITTED
All of the below recruits are committed to Alabama and are expected to sign with the Crimson Tide tomorrow. Many of them intend to enroll in January. These Early Enrollees are signified with EE. The numbers (#) signify their 247sports composite rankings. Commitment times are listed if known and are subject to change.
We will update this page throughout the day.
- DE Jeremiah Alexander 5-star #8 (Alabaster, AL) 6’2”/235 EE - LOI REC’D
- QB Ty Simpson 5-star #24 (Martin, TN) 6’2”/197 EE - LOI REC’D
- ATH Emmanuel Henderson 5-star #30 (Hartford, AL) 6’1”/185 - LOI REC’D
- OL Tyler Booker 4-star #51 (New Haven, CT/IMG) 6’5”/335 EE, 3pm/4pm LOI REC’D
- OL Elijah Pritchett 4-star #54 (Columbus, GA) 6’7”/290 LOI REC’D
- LB Shawn Murphy 4-star #57 (Manassas, VA) 6’2”/222 EE - LOI REC’D
- DT Jaheim Oatis 4-star #60 (Columbia, MS) 6’6”/348 EE - SIGNED
- WR Isaiah Bond 4-star #86 (Buford, GA) 6’0”/175, 4:45/5:45 LOI REC’D
- WR Aaron Anderson 4-star #96 (New Orleans, LA) 5’10”/180 - LOI REC’D
- RB Jamarion Miller 4-star #97 (Tyler, TX) 5’10”/200 EE - LOI REC’D
- TE Jaleel Skinner 4-star #98 (Greer, SC/IMG) 6’5”/215 EE (expected to sign on Wednesday morning, but will have a ceremony on Friday with family and announce then.)
- CB Trequon Fegans 4-star #104 (Alabaster, AL) 6’2”/180 EE - LOI REC’D
- WR Kobe Prentice 4-star #147 (Calera, AL) 5’11”/178 - LOI REC’D
- CB Antonio Kite 4-star #154 (Anniston, AL) 6’1”/185, 2:30/3:30 LOI REC’D
- WR Amari Niblack 4-star #173 (St. Petersburg, FL) 6’4”/228 EE - LOI REC’D
- TE Elijah Brown 4-star #299 (Huber Heights, OH 6’5”/230 EE - LOI REC’D
- DT Isaiah Hastings 4-star #308 (Toronto, ON/Clearwater, FL) 6’5”/291 - LOI REC’D
- OL Dayne Shor 3-star #381 (Alpharetta, GA) 6’5”/325 EE, 3:15/4:15 LOI REC’D
- S Jake Pope 3-star #390 (Buford, GA) 6’1”/190, 3:30/4:30 LOI REC’D
- DL Khurtiss Perry 4-star #74 (Pike Road, AL) Prediction: Alabama, LOI REC’D
- WR Shazz Preston 4-star #43 (Saint James, LA) Prediction: Alabama, LOI REC’D
- EDGE Jihaad Campbell 4-star #78 (Camden County, NJ/IMG) Prediction: Alabama, - LOI REC’D
- CB Earl Little 4-star #101 (Plantation FL) Prediction: Alabama, LOI REC’D
OTHERS
- DL Anthony Lucas 4-star #50 (Scottsdale, AZ) Prediction: TAMU, TAMU
- WkDE Marvin Jones Jr. 5-star #22 (Plantation, FL) Prediction: Georgia but not confident with that pick, Georgia
- EDGE Enai White 4-star #37 (Philadelphia, PA) Prediction: TAMU, TAMU
- OT Kiyaunta Goodwin 5-star #25 (Charlestown, IN) Prediction: Kentucky, Kentucky
- ILB Shemar James 4-star #64 (Mobile, AL) Prediction:
UGAchanged pick Wed. morning to Florida, Florida.
ETC.
- LB Robert Woodyard 4-star #137 (Mobile, AL) Prediction: Auburn, AUBURN (not a flip, Aubies)
MYSTERY RECRUIT?
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- Despite offers from from Army, Navy, Air Force, Samford, Furman, Kennesaw State, and a few others, Jay Loper has accepted a preferred walk-on offer from Alabama. He is a 5-10.5, 180-pound Athlete from Daphne, AL.
ANNOUNCING LATER THIS WEEK
- WR Kendrick Law 4-star #(Shreveport, LA) Prediction: Alabama, Friday
- CB Domani Jackson 5-star #8 (Santa Ana, CA) Prediction: Southern Cal, Friday
- CB Denver Harris 5-star #17 (Houston, TX) Prediction: TAMU - will sign privately this week and reveal his decision on Saturday after his team’s championship game.
ANNOUNCING IN 2022
- IOL Earnest Greene 4-star #40 (Bellflower, CA) Prediction: Georgia, announcing Jan. 8 at the All-American Bowl. Word is he secretly signed somewhere. If there is no talk of Alabama searching for another OL to sign, that might just indicate something...
- DE Walter Bob 4-star #270 (Acadiana, LA) Prediction: Juco.
- IOL Devon Campbell 5-star #10 (Arlington, TX) Prediction: Texas, announcing Feb. 3.
AROUND THE NATION
- SARK POWER! Texas flipped THREE this morning, one from Oklahoma, one from Michigan, and the #59 player Terrance Brooks from Ohio State. As of 8:50am CT, the Longhorns have the #6 class. Trussville, AL edge-rusher Justice Finkley has signed with Texas as well.
- Kentucky pulls off one of the biggest surprises of the day so far, landing four-star Michigan DT Deone Walker.
- As MeltdownThreadsAreNotReal mentioned in comments, there is a lot of chatter going around that head coach Deion Sanders is about to flip the nation’s #1 ranked player to Jackson State. Travis Hunter grew up a big Deion fan and it was the only reason he committed to FSU. It is all rumor right now but there has been talk of the NFL Hall of Famer offering Hunter a substantial NIL deal. The NCAA idiocy strikes again.
- It’s official. The craziest flip of all time has occurred as Hunter has signed with Jax State. FSU fans are melting down.
- 5-star IMG DB Kamari Wilson was looking like he would sign with Georgia for a long time but he picked Florida.
#RollTide #NSD22
Comments
19 starts here!
Rtr!
By jrb3 on 12.15.21 7:09am
You mean 20?
We’re about to win 19
By jebkeb11 on 12.15.21 7:23am
And 21, 22 & 23 are already on campus.
(And prolly some current true freshman will play as a redshirt senior on the 24th national champion team, so 24 already began, too, I guess.)
#BamaAccountingProblems
By cecil.honeychurch on 12.15.21 7:43am
Roll Tide!
Time to get the next Champions, Heismans, Legends!
By 7th.Son on 12.15.21 7:24am
Exciting Time…..
….To be an Alabama fan. Roll Tide!
By dcNatz on 12.15.21 7:10am
ESD,
also known as WTFWYSTD Why The Fuck Would You Sign There Day
or G&TAMGMTTWD Georgia & Texas A&M Get More Talent To Waste Day
Seriously,
I bet the pitch now is, if you want money for nothing, go to those other places, if you want to earn money AND have a shot at the NFL WHILE winning championships, come to Bama.
By CrimsonRon on 12.15.21 7:23am
Johnson brothers to tamu
Something in the water over there. Historic class for Texas A&M no doubt. Gonna be the best class to ever go 8-5
By MeltdownThreadsAreNotReal on 12.15.21 7:30am
By PiperTJ on 12.15.21 7:39am
I don’t think this is a coincidence
The money that could flow in for TAMU from
NIL could be a game changer for the program.
The only problem: UT coming to the SEC will take some of the shine off the Aggies with Texas recruiting.
Of course, the greatest benefactor to date with the SEC’s expansion into Texas has been Bama. May it stay that way forever.
By MontanaGump on 12.15.21 9:27am
You can have the Jimmies and Joes,
but you still have to teach the X’s and O’s.
By CrimsonRon on 12.15.21 9:28am
I'ma put this under spoiler, as it's Gump Day
I stand by my assertion/prediction that NIL is the ultimate playing- field- leveling- event that could ever take place, short of NFL minor leagues.
I’m just using your snark, which has a lot of historical data to back it, to say there will come a tipping point away from player dev, to simply overflowing one’s coffers with talent. As my Marines used to say "Accuracy- by- volume".
We (Bammers) revel in/ retort to that Saban is the best developer out there, that Bama has the best of everything. Well, as myopic as that may be, Saban ain’t an egotistical billionaire (yet), and I don’t think Bama’s booster scene can hold a candle to that of the oil barons and sagebrush silicon valley crowd.
What started as a "toe-test the NIL enforcement waters" to see what’s fashionable and permissible, has morphed into an arms race of bragging rights- These mfers went straight to "CANNONBALL!" It’s YOLO on the field AND YOLO in the boardrooms. "What?!?!? Dem shorthorns are paying 20 O linemen out of a "charity"? Get JimBob on da phone, tell hims we’re buying a whole f*cking team!!"
"spoiler">
I joked about the fiduciary responsibly aspect, and think some (many?) may still be weighing options and optics carefully, but others have gone right to LEROYJENKINNNNSSSS, and with a toothless NCAA, and state laws ild West’ing NIL, Bama will eventually succumb.
By PiperTJ on 12.15.21 12:01pm
While that may be true i can tell you one thing for certain
By Bamaburgh on 12.15.21 12:12pm
I think NIL was a horrible idea.
Especially the way it has happened.
By Durdens Wrath on 12.15.21 1:24pm
Lots of things were..
NIL Is a fine idea,.. it’s fair. It’s implementation and lack of structure, of boundaries make it chaotic and likely to become more so before settling into some sort of ‘norm’.
Most decisions are like this.. take the transfer portal. Your player leaves,.. you (as of now) don’t get that scholarship back immediately. What kind of sense does that make?
Point is.. the NCAA and like bodies don’t generally do a great job of thinking these things through and implementing them well.
By GuessJ on 12.15.21 1:44pm
Because they're entirely reactive to the courts and public opinion
The next issue they get in front of will be the first.
By Bocktean on 12.15.21 2:29pm
I'm honestly doubting Bama ever finds itself in a spot where it can't compete financially on the football front
If the program has issues AfterSaban, it’s going to mismanagement of resources, not a lack of them.
By Bocktean on 12.15.21 4:36pm
Hope you're right
But it just seems like it won’t be possible to keep upping the bids against the deepest pockets that exist and are quite motivated.
By PiperTJ on 12.15.21 4:49pm
Those boosters will eventually find other venues to squander their money. Other sports, real estate, politics...
I wouldn’t doubt Alabama boosters are willing to ruin themselves to match the big Texas pockets. It’s the one of the few things of national relevance this state has.
By EJOliv on 12.15.21 6:21pm
Wow what an ugly comment.
By CJMaury on 12.15.21 6:46pm
Yep. EJOliv really underestimates how much money Bama boosters are willing to spend
to keep Tommy Tuberville in the Senate.
By cecil.honeychurch on 12.15.21 6:50pm
apparently not as much as Georgia
By CJMaury on 12.15.21 7:08pm
Most of that was out-of-state?
Seemed to me Tommie wasn’t the home-town pick on the money front.
By Bocktean on 12.15.21 7:08pm
I didn’t even get to your political comment.
By CJMaury on 12.15.21 7:15pm
I can't stand TT
And that has zero to do with his politics, predates his political career by about, oh, two decades. And it’s not even really a function of being an Auburn coach. Dye, Chizik – not my favorite people, but I don’t dislike them.
I can’t stand Tommie.
By Bocktean on 12.15.21 7:39pm
Well...
…he is a slimy a$$hole, so maybe it’s the smell…
By NiceLittleSaturday on 12.15.21 7:44pm