Ryan Grubb says 1 Alabama quarterback is the best ‘pure thrower’

Alabama football’s offensive coordinator, Ryan Grubb feels the Crimson Tide’s quarterback, Austin Mack, is a natural thrower of the football.

Mack is involved in the three-way quarterback competition at the moment along with Ty Simpson and Austin Mack. The 6-foot-6, 236-pounder is continuing to grow as a quarterback, and Grubb thinks the California product has a bright future ahead of him.

“Austin is, first of all, he’s just a really big guy and still can run and move around,” Grubb said while talking with Ryan Fowler in Tide 100.9. “If you’re walking out on the field and you’re watching all the guys throw, you’d be looking at Austin, and he’s probably your best pure thrower, just power and tempo of the football and where he can put it and touch. He is a pure thrower of the ball. He’s just like Keelon, still developing as a decision maker and still getting command of the offense and certainly the reps that he’s been able to get this spring and even this summer already is really what he didn’t have his first two years because he just wasn’t in a position to be either the backup or in a competitive role for the starting position. So, now all the coaching and reps that he’s getting, I feel like he’s growing every week, but I think he’s more mobile than people think.”

Grubb also discussed what Mack brings to the game from a mental standpoint.

“He’s extremely intelligent,” Grubb told Fowler. “He probably picks stuff up as fast, if not faster than anybody in the room, very smart kid. Now, it’s just like letting the game to slow down for him, letting him make the easy plays look easy because when he’s on and he’s pushing the ball where it’s supposed to go, I told him, and I mean it. He looks like if you went out to an NFL game and you watched some guys throw before a game. That’s what they look like. And that’s how Austin is.”

Alabama has not officially named its next starting quarterback as Mack remains in contention to win the job.