Earlier today, Alabama dropped a list of all the new numbers for the Tide’s new players along with the number changes of returning players via a graphic from Yea Alabama.
While it was a bit weird to have this come out from a tweet rather than the usual surprise stealth roster update at RollTide.com, it did make things easier for viewing things in a list, rather than the usual hunt and peck method. And shout out to AL.com
for typing the list out so I could make use of a nice copy/paste tool.
First up, here are the number changes for each of the Tide’s returners:
No. 0– Yhonzae Pierre (previously No. 42)
No. 1– Ryan Coleman-Williams (previously No. 2, changes name from Ryan Williams)
No. 3– Lotzeir Brooks (previously No. 17)
No. 4– Luke Metz (previously No. 26)
No. 6– Red Morgan (previously No. 16)
No. 6– Kevin Riley (previously No. 28)
No. 7– Rico Scott (previously No. 11)
No. 9– Marshall Pritchett (previously No. 14)
No. 23– Cayden Jones (previously No. 30)
No. 45– Jay Williams (previously No. 46)
No. 59– JD Martin (previously No. 54)
No. 69– Baker Hickman (previously No. 66)
No. 77– Jackson Lloyd (previously No. 78)
I kind of hate that Lotzeir Brooks is changing away from 17, it was such a cool number. And I guess Yhonzae Pierre is taking up the mantle of #0 always being worn by a linebacker. And the other big news, of course, is Ryan Williams changing his official last name to Coleman-Williams.
It really would be an interesting psychology study, to me, to figure out how it became the thing for veteran players to always get the lower numbers. There isn’t a single change this year with someone’s number going higher. Oh well, I’ll keep dying on my hill of wanting another actual starting running back in the 30s and a WR in the 80s. One day.
As far as all of the new players, here’s the whole group:
No. 1– Devan Thompkins
No. 5– Noah Rogers
No. 7– Caleb Woodson
No. 8– Cedarian Morgan
No. 9– Desmond Umeozulu
No. 10– Jireh Edwards
No. 11– Tayden-Evan Kaawa
No. 11– Xavier Griffin
No. 13– EJ Crowell
No. 15– Jett Thomalla
No. 16– Jorden Edmonds
No. 17–Trae’shawn Brown
No. 17– Zyan Gibson
No. 18– Mack Sutter
No. 20— Khalifa Keith
No. 21– Maurice Mathis Jr.
No. 22– Kedrick Bingley-Jones
No. 24– Rihyael Kelley
No. 26– Mhari Johnson
No. 28– Carmelo O’Neal
No. 29– Nick Sherman
No. 32– JR Howard
No. 33– Adam Watford
No. 34- Zay Hall
No. 37– Tyler Henderson
No. 40– Josh Ford
No. 41– Jamarion Matthews
No. 49– Ethan Stangle
No. 54– Jayvin James
No. 63– Bryson Cooley
No. 65– Tyrell Miller
No. 71– Nick Brooks
No. 72– Ty Haywood
No. 73– Chris Booker
No. 75– Ethan Fields
No. 79– Kaden Strayhorn
No. 80– Jaxon Shuttlesworth
No. 86– Jude Cascone
No. 90– Lorcan Quinn
It’s a massive list, and obviously includes a big number of walk on players that we’ll likely never see. But the biggest eye-catcher is WR Cederian Morgan choosing to wear #8. He’s already a 6’4” 220 receiver that’s drawn athletic comparisons to Julio Jones, so rolling in with the 8 jersey definitely wont do anything to slow down those fan expectations.
And with that, spring football is just around the corner. Roll Tide!
