Alabama Head Coach Kalen DeBoer Lays Out How Alabama Can Help Ty Simpson

Midway through the 2025 college football season, Alabama quarterback Ty Simpson could do no wrong, with multiple passing touchdowns in every game and coming off four-straight ranked wins for the Crimson Tide. Simpson was either the Heisman favorite or in the top three (depending on the sportsbook you used). Since those four ranked wins in September and October, Alabama is 4-2, and needed a comeback to beat South Carolina, struggled to beat Auburn, and got waxed by Georgia in the SEC Championship. It feels like quarterback Ty Simpson has lost his confidence on the field after such a strong start to the season for the first-year starter.

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Is he hurt? Did he lose confidence after a couple of poor turnovers? What happened to Ty Simpson? Alabama head coach Kalen DeBoer laid it out in the postgame press conference.

I think it's just having some continuity in practice," DeBoer said after the game. " If I went through, I don't think this is what this is about, but if I went through the guys who we are gluing together, I know that locker room has the same situation going on, but you talk about Parker Brailsford, who if you give these guys two weeks to get ready, what the health will look like for these guys, Parker Brailsford, Germ, Daniel Hill, I'm not saying what he's playing through, but two weeks, it will be a different Daniel Hill, okay?

"You execute, or you have a lack of execution in games because you probably didn't have everyone out there working together in practice. So Dewberry will be back, 100%, I mean, he was at the end of the week. Geno would be back. He got taken out of the game there. He'll be back. I can keep going on down the line. More reps for our other running backs. Fully expect to have Jam back. Two of our three losses are when Jam doesn't play.

"Really, not a chance, that he felt like he could play today. He's not that far away. It's not the one, to me, injury that keeps you out, holds you back. Even a chance to - could be tight, but a chance even for Kevin Riley. That might be a little bit tight, just to be real with you.

"There's a lot of guys. I think that's what it really comes down to, is playing with their guys. We got into this game today. The execution just wasn't quite as crisp. There's usually a reason for that. Again, defensively, the same thing. Kelby Collins, LT, Z.B. (Zabien Brown), in the game today dinged up. Dijon, a little bit before the game, with an evaluation we had where we had to hold off.

"All those guys in two weeks, considerably different football team, the one you would have seen earlier in the season."

Alabama was without its starting running back, Jam Miller, and starting tight end Josh Cuevas, in the SEC Championship. Starting wide receiver Germie Bernard and starting center Parker Brailsford missed Alabama's game against Eastern Illinois and were banged up during Alabama's victory over the Auburn Tigers last week.

DeBoer mentioned these key players who were out or got injured during the SEC Championship against Georgia:

LT Oveton, DL
Jam Miller, RB
Josh Cuevas, TE
Parker Brailsford, C
Germie Bernard, WR
Daniel Hill, RB
Kam Dewberry, LG
Dijon Lee, CB
Zabien Brown, CB
Geno VanDeMark, OL
Kevin Riley, RB
Kelby Collins, DL
Justin Jefferson, LB

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Wyatt Fulton is the Tide 100.9 DME and Brand Manager, primarily covering Alabama Crimson Tide football and men's basketball. For more Crimson Tide coverage, follow Wyatt on X (Formerly known as Twitter) at @FultonW_.