REPORT: Next Step for Milroe: Can Alabama QB Surge Forward in 2024?”…

Next Step for Milroe: Can Alabama QB Surge Forward in 2024?”

The time after Nick Saban is now over at Alabama, as former Washington head coach Kalen DeBoer takes over in Tuscaloosa.

With regard to their new roster, the Crimson Tide need senior quarterback Jalen Milroe, who was the team’s main starter the previous season and helped Alabama go 12-2 and to the College Football Playoff before losing to Michigan in the semifinals, to advance to the College Football Playoffs the following year.

The No. 1 College Football Show with RJ Young, in its most recent episode,” host RJ Young chatted with sports media personality Bomani Jones about Milroe’s upside, with the latter likening a roadmap for Milroe’s development to a former Texas star.

“I would say that the 2022 Jayden Daniels was a better player than the 2023 Jalen Milroe, but you can make a big offseason jump; that can happen. We’ve seen that happen, and I don’t even know how big a jump he needs to make, as much as he kind of needs to make refinements,” Jones said. “Another great example of this [is] the change between a 2004 and a 2005 Vince Young, as a passer, was pretty noticeable.”

Milroe completed 65.8% of his passes for 2,834 yards, 23 passing touchdowns, eight interceptions, and a 172.2 passer rating in the previous campaign. In addition, he ran for two touchdowns and 531 yards. He played in four games for the Crimson Tide the previous season, starting one of them in lieu of Bryce Young, the 2021 Heisman Trophy winner.

Daniels, a 23-year-old, had a quiet 2022 rookie campaign in Baton Rouge before winning the 2023 Heisman Trophy with LSU. In Thursday’s 2024 NFL Draft, Daniels is anticipated to be chosen with the second overall choice by the Washington Commanders.

Young, on the other hand, improved his passer rating by 35.5 points and passed for 1,187 more yards and 14 more touchdowns from 2004 to 2005. Young also ran for more than 1,000 yards and 12 touchdowns in both seasons, helping Texas capture the 2005 National Championship. In the 2006 NFL Draft, he was chosen with the third overall pick by The Tennessee Titans.

Young agrees with Jones.

“I love Jalen. I really do, but he’s got the other Jalen’s [Hurts] tendencies, too. He’s going to put the ball on the floor. I can’t have a quarterback put the ball on the floor,” Young said. “I maintain that the Philadelphia Eagles lost to the Kansas City Chiefs because he put the ball on the floor. Can’t do that. He got that whole throwing-the-ball-to-the-other-team thing under control, but to the world and back, he beat Georgia, and you can’t say he didn’t do that. And then he has that dramatic come-from-behind win against Auburn.”

Milroe and the Crimson Tide now play in a more loaded SEC, as No. 3 Texas and No. 12 Oklahoma join the conference next season.