Another year, another slow-developing Alabama QB battle

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HOOVER, Ala. — It was never going to happen. Alabama coach Nick Saban wasn’t going to strut to the podium at SEC media days last week and announce his next starting quarterback to the world. He wouldn’t even hint at it. It just isn’t his style. He’d sooner spike a football in commissioner Greg Sankey’s face.

The competition is simply too close to call. If you watched A-Day, you know that. Jalen Hurts looked the best in the spring game, and he’s a true freshman at the bottom of the depth chart. Cooper Bateman and David Cornwell, presumably the top two candidates, were consistently mediocre.

And, really, what’s the use for Saban to pretend otherwise? There’s no reason to move any option off the table right now.

Oh, you wanted an actual update on the progress of the quarterbacks in July? What were you thinking?

“For the third year in a row, I’m standing up here talking about somebody’s going to be a new quarterback for us,” Saban said. “Somebody’s got to win that job. Somebody’s got to win the team. You know, that has not necessarily happened yet and, you know, I’m not going to sit up here and sort of try to, you know — I don’t know the right word — but give you some statistics on who’s winning the race and how the race is going and who’s ahead, are they on the back stretch or in the final turn. That’s something that’s going to happen probably in fall camp.”

With that said, there are some things we know heading into camp, the most important of which is that there has been nothing to indicate that Bateman isn’t still the front-runner. Perhaps that wouldn’t be the case if Cornwell or redshirt freshman Blake Barnett had dazzled in …

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