What Alabama is working on to close spring practice

Alabama football’s 2026 spring practice session will come to an end this week in Tuscaloosa with one practice remaining after Tuesday.

The Crimson Tide traditionally wraps up spring practice on A-Day. However, according to Kalen DeBoer, the way the Tide’s spring practices were scheduled this year allowed the team to have two more practices after Alabama’s A-Day scrimmage.

DeBoer told reporters Saturday this week will allow the Tide to focus on situational strategies.

“We’ll do a lot with the two-minute drill and things like that next week, too,” DeBoer said. “We haven’t done any of that. Just with a lot of new faces, wanted to get our base stuff in, and next week we’ll get into a lot of that situation, red zone, tqo-minute drill, things like that.”

Alabama football was ranked 39th in the country in red zone offense during the 2025 season, scoring on 88 percent of its trips into the red zone. The Tide’s red zone defense ranked 28th in the country by keeping opponents off the scoreboard on nine of the forty times opponents made it into the red zone. They held opponents to field goals 10 times, while only allowing 21 touchdowns.

“We were very good in the red zone last year as a team, pretty balanced between offense and defense, and our execution down there,” said DeBoer. “We’ve got to keep working on it.”

Alabama will shift its focus to summer workouts once the spring concludes.