Ja’Corey Brooks talks about how Alabama wide receivers have built chemistry with quarterbacks

A quarterback competition is often tricky to navigate for all parties involved. That can be especially true for the pass catchers too as they try to build chemistry with the person who will be throwing them the rock. Even so, Ja’Corey Brooks isn’t concerned about the matter at the moment at Alabama.

Brooks spoke about the Tide’s QB battle following their spring game last week. He said that all of the receivers are getting the same amount of reps with each of the candidates. For now, he said they’re focused on themselves while the quarterbacks compete amongst each other.

“It’s not that hard. But we all practice with, I guess, the same amount of time (with) each of the quarterbacks. So it wouldn’t be hard,” Brooks said. “We just need to, as receivers, do our job, and the quarterback is gonna do their job.”

As far as progress, though, Brooks did say each of the quarterbacks are making strides towards next season. From what he has seen from Jalen Milroe, Ty Simpson, and the other options previous to the addition of Tyler Buchner, he thinks ‘Bama will be just fine at that spot come kickoff this fall.

“Both of them and the younger quarterback? Everybody’s seeing progress,” said Brooks. “Both of them had a great week and this whole spring. I can’t wait to see what they do during the season.”

With Bryce Young officially gone, the quarterback competition has been the talk of the town around Tuscaloosa. Still, Brooks isn’t too bothered by it as he has full faith that it will shake out how it needs to and, in turn, he and his fellow receivers will be ready to produce for whoever once it does.

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Jalen Milroe and Ty Simpson were head-to-head over the course of the spring and now have a third contender in the quarterback race. Tyler Buchner transferred from Notre Dame and reunited with offensive coordinator Tommy Rees.

That really led to some surprise for Finebaum, who joined McElroy and Cubelic.

“I think in some ways it’s shocking,” Finebaum said. “And you guys need to help me with my math but right now I think there’s five quarter five scholarship quarterbacks on the Alabama roster. I’ll defer to Greg and anyone who’s ever played the game to tell me how that works. In just seven on sevens and ultimately in fall camp, it doesn’t seem like a great situation. And it’s really surprising. I have no earthly idea why somebody didn’t choose to go unless it just wasn’t a very good time to go. And that could very well be the explanation. There’s not a lot of great opportunities in late April, early May.”

“And I guess I’m not there but when you have that many people that are still in the running, if you could, you could dig into the cliche book of having more than one quarterback and everyone knows where I’m going there,” Finebaum said. “But it will be fascinating. After not having a quarterback battle in many, many years, all eyes will be on Tuscaloosa.”