Iron Bowl injury update: Auburn at Alabama Friday injury report revealed

Rivalry Weekend is finally here and that means one thing in the state of Alabama: it’s Iron Bowl time.

The SEC’s most storied rivlary returns Saturday at 3:30 pm ET (ABC) inside Bryant-Denny Stadium, and once again there will be far more than just in-state bragging rights on the line.

Both teams are dealing with notable injuries. For Alabama, senior linebacker Deontae Lawson is out after recently undergoing season-ending surgery after an injury last week against Oklahoma. For Auburn, tight end Rivaldo Fairweather appeared on the injury report Wednesday as a “game-time decision.” He is no longer on Friday’s injury report.

Full Alabama at Auburn Thursday injury report

Alabama Crimson Tide

• LB Deontae Lawson – Out
• DB Keon Sabb – Out
• WR Cole Adams – Out
• LB Que Robinson – Out

Auburn Tigers

• OLB Jamonta Waller – Out
• DB Tyler Scott – Out
• DB Champ Anthony – Out
• K Alex McPherson – Out
• TE Brandon Frazier – Out
  

No. 13 Alabama (8-3, 4-3 SEC) currently finds itself on the outside looking in on the 12-team College Football Playoff field and desperately needs a bounce-back win after its embarrassing 24-3 loss at Oklahoma last weekend just to stay in the conversation.

Meanwhile, Auburn (5-6, 2-5 SEC) needs a win to secure bowl eligibility in back-to-back seasons under head coach Hugh Freeze. There is also the “revenge” factor, according to five-star freshman receiver Cam Coleman, after the Crimson Tide stole victory from the jaws of defeat with the infamous “Gravedigger” fourth-and-31 touchdown pass from Jalen Milroe to Isaiah Bond in the closing minutes of a 27-24 win inside Jordan-Hare Stadium.

“Really a revenge tour,” Coleman said, via Jacob Waters of Opelika-Auburn News. “We’re going in their place and we’re really just going to go into their crib and just take over and have fun while we’re doing it.

“This is going to be some of the last memories we make with each other so let’s go make it a memorable game.”

Alabama has dominated the Iron Bowl of late, winning four straight in the series and six in a row inside Bryant-Denny Stadium since the infamous Cam Newton-led 28-27 comeback win for Auburn in 2010.

Prior to former Tide head coach Nick Saban‘s arrival in 2007, the Tigers controlled the series in Tuscaloosa, winning the first four Iron Bowls inside Bryant-Denny Stadium after the rivalry became a true home-and-home in 2000. New Alabama head coach Kalen DeBoer will attempt to become the first Crimson Tide coach not-named-Saban to beat Auburn in Tuscaloosa.