Why DeBoer is confident in growth Alabama football’s offensive line is showing after scrimmage No. 2

Alabama football’s offensive line continues to put in work this spring, according to Kalen DeBoer.

The Crimson Tide made its way to Bryant-Denny Stadium Friday for its second scrimmage of the spring. While it looks as if the Alabama offense did not dominate in the second scrimmage, DeBoer felt he saw potential and a reason to be confident in the Tide’s offensive line.

The Alabama head coach detailed how the Tide’s first group of offensive linemen played in the second scrimmage during his press conference.

“Started a little bit slow the first couple drives, got some seams, the running backs hit it for some explosives, then it just goes back and forth,” DeBoer said. “It’s the ebbs and flows of football. I think overall what you see is their understanding of what their responsibility is. Again, another level of install, some new things we put in. I feel like the stuff we’ve repped, that’s across the board, they’ve done a good job of picking up and the things that are newer, we still got some work to do. I think the potential is there. I think from run game, slowly inching forward, it’s not all of a sudden you’re just going to hit it all. I think that there’s progress in certain things. There’s certainly schemes stuff that we’re not as strong in yet, but there’s some things we could go to if we had to play a game this weekend that we feel pretty confident in.”

The Tide’s offensive line did allow more pressure to get to its quarterbacks in the second scrimmage, but DeBoer felt it was a product of good execution on the defensive side.

“Protecting the quarterback, again, it’s probably much the same,” DeBoer told reporters. “The concepts we’ve run, got a lot of reps under our belt on, we’re pretty sound. In the stuff that’s newer this week, probably installed, you can see that they’re not quite in sync. Probably had more pressure on the quarterback this week than what we had last week. I think there’s a little bit of both sides, whether it’s execution on offensive line or the defensive line wanting to prove something after last week probably not getting as much pressure.”

Alabama fans will have an opportunity to see the offensive line up close on April 11 when the Tide hosts its spring game, A-Day. Kickoff is set for 1 p.m., and admission is free.