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Jahmyr Gibbs shares moment with Ty Gibbs at NASCAR race Sunday

Chandler Vesselsby:Chandler Vessels•04/23/23•

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Two famous Gibbs met up at the Geico 500 race in Talladega on Sunday. Former Alabama running back Jahmyr Gibbs was in attendance and met up with NASCAR driver Ty Gibbs in prior to the event.

The two posed briefly together for a picture as FOX Sports caught the moment on camera. You can watch their interaction below.

Interestingly enough, Ty Gibbs is the son of former Washington Commanders coach Joe Gibbs, while Jahmyr Gibbs is getting set to enter the NFL. Most analysts have him going anywhere between the late-first to early-second round.

Jahmyr Gibbs finished with 926 yards rushing and seven touchdowns in addition to 44 catches for 444 yards receiving and three more scores with the Crimson Tide in 2022. FOX Sports analyst Joel Klatt predicted him to go in the late first round to the Buffalo Bills in a recent mock draft, explaining his reasoning.

With the Bills, I think that they need to give Josh Allen a little bit of help at running back,” he said. “There’s where I’m going Jahmyr Gibbs. I love Jahmyr Gibbs’ game. He’s versatile, he catches it out of the backfield as well as anybody. Now, he is not quite Bijan Robinson, yeah, he’s not quite Bijan Robinson because I don’t think he runs between the tackles with the same feel that Bijan does. But when you get him into some space, when you can check the ball down to a guy like Jahmyr Gibbs and he can make everybody miss and he can run the ball tough.”

With about nine laps to go, Ty Gibbs was in second place at the GEICO 500 on Sunday. He’ll have Jahmyr Gibbs there to cheer him on the rest of the way as he hopes for a strong push at the end.

GEICO 500 Starts With Pit Road Chaos as Tyler Reddick, Chase Briscoe Lose Control

As Stage 1 was getting to the halfway point, the NASCAR GEICO 500 got wild, fast. And it was on pit road of all places! Not only did Tyler Reddick lose control of his car coming into the Toyota pit cycle, but Chase Briscoe also followed with the Fords.

While Reddick was able to get going again, Briscoe triggered a caution in the Geico 500. Earlier we saw Michael McDowell spin out, but he was able to hold onto his car for the most part. Briscoe ended up strange pit road with nowhere to go.

Those Toyotas looked strong in qualifying and some of them look great in the early part of the race. Bubba Wallace battled with some Stewart-Haas drivers in Aric Almirola and Chase Briscoe. Then he had to deal with Daniel Suárez as the stage was getting to the halfway point.

With 26 laps to go in the stage, Wallace led the first group, mainly the Toyotas to the pits for the first time. It switched up the strategy for plenty of the teams as they had to decide to take tires or wait for the stage points. Reddick couldn’t hold onto it.

Pretty soon after Reddick had his ordeal, we saw the 14 of Briscoe lose it. It was almost like there was an oil slick down on the track before the pits. When Briscoe tried to get going, it was clear that the car had an issue. His front wheels refused to move as he burned out the rear tires trying to pull into his stall.