Jalen Milroe will have a lot to prove this year at Alabama, and one ESPN pundit thinks he’ll have the most to prove of anyone.
ESPN college football reporter Heather Dinch named the Alabama star the quarterback with “the most to prove” in the upcoming 2024-25 college football season.
Dinich made the remarks on Thursday morning’s episode of First Take.
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“I would say Milroe,” Dinich said after being asked who has the most to prove this year. “I had a chance to talk to him yesterday. He’s looking me in the eye, he’s smiling, and I said, ‘I know you don’t wanna take 44 sacks again. So what do you have to do?’ And he’s cognizant of the fact that there’s better decisions he has to make.”
Dinich pointed to Washington quarterback Michael Penix Jr., who got sacked fewer than 20 times in his two years under Kalen DeBoer in Seattle. DeBoer is now at Alabama, so that should put some promise behind Milroe and his approach to the 2024 season.
“He’s working with DeBoer in order to do those things. But he’s got the deep ball. He’s got the total package. But to me, of all those quarterbacks, because of that high amount of sacks… I think that that’s where you can see the most progress of the QBs we threw out there.”
We’ll see where Milroe can lead the Crimson Tide in their first year without Nick Saban at the helm since 2006. You’ll see Alabama a lot more on ESPN this year since the SEC negotiated a new media rights deal with the network.
