Former Alabama safety Kaine Williams announces transfer commitment to Nebraska

Former Alabama safety Kaine Williams has announced where he’ll be playing football next season, and the defensive back is taking his talents to Nebraska. In an announcement on social media, Williams was exuberant in announcing his decision to join the Cornhuskers via the transfer portal.

1000 percent committed‼️‼️ let’s go GBR☠️‼️‼️‼️ pic.twitter.com/DJrNQYLNq4

— ☥Kaine ”K5IVE” Williams☥ (@kwilliams5_) May 15, 2022

“1000 percent committed,” wrote Williams, accompanying a graphic of the former Alabama safety donning the Nebraska uniform. “Let’s go GBR!”

Moreover, Williams was a member of the Tide’s No. 1-ranked 2021 recruiting class, playing just special teams snaps in his first year in Tuscaloosa.

The Marrero, Louisiana, native was a four-star prospect coming out of John Ehret High School. He chose Alabama over offers from two dozen other Division-I programs, including the LSU Tigers. Williams was the No. 245 recruit in the country, No. 16 at safety and No. 9 in Louisiana, according to the On3 Consensus.

The freshman defensive back will be immediately eligible to play at Nebraska, with four years to play four seasons.

Nick Saban: ‘One of the things I’d like to be able to see us work back to is, everything in college football has always had parity’

Moreover, Alabama head coach Nick Saban has been open and forthright about his views on the state of college football and where it is headed. Saban has not been a fan of the rapid expansion in NIL or the transfer portal within college sports. And on Friday, during a sit-down interview on The Paul Finebaum Show, the Crimson Tide headman opened on his view on the state of college football.

The NCAA is working on ways to level out the playing field again regarding college recruiting. Many coaches have openly spoken out against what they believe is a negative impact, thanks to NIL and the transfer portal. For them, expanding NIL deals for players creates an unfair advantage in recruiting for some schools. And with little regulation on players’ ability to transfer and where they move to, unlike in the past, athletes have the ability to opt-out of a program at a moment’s notice.

“One of the things I’d like to be able to see us work back to is, everything in college football has always had parity,” Saban said. “Same with scholarship, same with academic support, health care, whatever it is. I don’t think we have that balance right now, which could affect the parity of college football and college athletics as a whole. I know we got a lot of good people working on it, and I’m sure they’ll come up with a good solution for us.”

"One of the things I like to see us be able to work back to is everything in CFB has always had parity."

Alabama Head Coach Nick Saban on the state of college football. pic.twitter.com/tibfsUvUeM

— Paul Finebaum (@finebaum) May 13, 2022

As Saban said in the video above, there are “a lot of good people working on it.” and with everybody’s attention on college sports as a whole, a solution should be on the horizon soon. But only time will tell if veteran coaches like Nick Saban agree with the new system or are unresponsive to the change that is here.

On3’s Nikki Chavanelle contributed to this article.