What Kalen DeBoer said about Lotzeir Brooks, Alabama WR room
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Alabama signed two wide receivers on Wednesday.
One had been committed since April and one committed on Day 1 of the Early Signing Period.
Lotzier Brooks committed two days after he was offered by the Alabama staff in April, while Derek Meadows flipped his commitment from LSU to the Tide on what is now National Signing Day. Because of the latter’s late ceremony, head coach Kalen DeBoer couldn’t comment on Meadows, but he did offer some high praise for Brooks on Wednesday night.
“A very dynamic player,” DeBoer said. “Got good size as far as a frame and everything and can jump through the roof. Just super explosive and great ball skills. He’s an athlete, a very good athlete, but he’s also a wide receiver. He has those instinctual things, that spatial awareness, can make guys miss when he gets the ball in his hands, but he gets the ball in his hands.
“He’s quarterback-friendly. He’s been the go-to guy.”
Brooks rose up the recruiting rankings this fall, and On3 currently considers him the 72nd-best recruit and the No. 13 wide receiver in the 2025 class. The Millville, New Jersey native holds the state records for career receiving yards (4,615) and receiving touchdowns (67).
“That production right there and doing it at a 1,000-yard pace almost every year in high school, to me, those guys that have been doing it that much and have that type of production – I don’t care where you’re at – that’s impressive because the pressure’s been on him to make that next play, to covert that third down or whatever it be to score the touchdown,” DeBoer said.
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“I’m excited about the instincts on top of the athleticism and explosiveness that he brings.”
Brooks and Meadows give Alabama a two-receiver class and two of the top 16 wideouts in the nation this cycle; Meadows was ranked No. 16, per the On3 Industry Rankings. Five-star Caleb Cunningham had been committed to UA but flipped to Ole Miss last month. The Crimson Tide currently has 12 scholarship wide receivers on its roster as of early December.
While all of the receivers can come back for another year, that is not expected to be the case. We’ve already learned that Kobe Prentice plans to enter the transfer portal when it opens next week, and there could always be more who choose to move on this offseason.
Alabama’s wide receiver room is currently led by Germie Bernard and Ryan Williams, who can both come back next year. There’s good depth in the room, too, and with what the Crimson Tide was able to add on Wednesday, DeBoer likes the state of UA’s receiving corps.
“I think it’s a room that is in a good spot, and we just need to keep growing it,” DeBoer said.
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