{"id":7042549,"date":"2026-08-20T06:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T06:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/alabama\/alabama-football-five-star-freshmen-push-for-playing-time-on-defense\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T06:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T06:03:11","slug":"alabama-football-five-star-freshmen-push-for-playing-time-on-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7042549","title":{"rendered":"Alabama football: Five-star freshmen push for playing time on defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI told the guys this is a really big week,\u201d Wommack said after Tuesday\u2019s practice. \u201cDecisions are going to be made in my mind about who takes the field against East Carolina based off of what you do this week. I\u2019m telling guys, I\u2019m a human stock market. You know what I mean? Stock is up, stock is down, but there\u2019s a line that I\u2019m going to draw of guys that we trust to go do their job at a high level that I feel like we can go put in the first game pretty much regardless of the situation or time on the clock or score, any of that kind of stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Under Wommack the last two seasons, Alabama uses a heavy rotation of players at all levels of the defense, especially on the defensive line. This allows a fairly large group of defenders to play at least 15 to 20 snaps a game on top of the starters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cWe\u2019ll ride with those guys,\u201d Wommack said. \u201cDoesn\u2019t mean that that can\u2019t change as the season goes on. Doesn\u2019t mean that we can\u2019t add pieces to the puzzle as the season goes on, which we most certainly are going to have to do. 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