re: 2013 Alabama Football Recruiting Thread

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Saban made an in-home visit to Jarran Reed last night.

I don't know what to think of this dude. I can't find any film on him to watch. I know he is rated as a 4-star on 247 and a high one at that coming in at a 94. He's a big kid at 6'4" 305 lbs, but how does he move? I really want to see him in action.

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he is very light on his feet but also plays too high up (Rumph can easily fix) able to sift through traffic to make tackles and has good tackle technique and great hand and block shedding technique, solid upper body but needs work much more finesse than power

needs work on explosion and upper body strength again can be fixed but for his size he is very athletic

Apedeuce - Based on that quick look, do u think he plays or redshirts next season?

uuuuhhmmmmm....really tough question head says yes, I wanna hope we have someone emerge as a NG in the Spring to help out Pagan and Hubbard, gonna need a lot of work on his stance and explosiveness BUT he is a freakish athlete at his size he runs down RBs and edges sweeps, has been taught really good block shedding even against chopping even hops over guys in the pile to get to a ball carrier and he has SEC caliber tackling skills also he isn't a slinger or a arm tackler, he engages and runs through

I say all this since this is usually the biggest areas of need in JuCos at DT and they are raw, he really isn't that raw and seems like an instant type impact guy and a guy who can man up the nose or slide over and play DT in Dime (specialty) so yeah head says yes, needs stance technique but that's it everything else is a lot better than I expected, much more Dareus like skillset not as good but that same type mold

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