Alabama head football coach Kalen DeBoer kept many of the recruits Nick Saban brought to Tuscaloosa during the initial NIL years from 2021 to 2023. Class of 2020 DL Tim Smith got a fifth season due to COVID-19 affecting his freshman year,

Ryan Grubb has nearly been Alabama football’s offensive coordinator multiple times. He interviewed with Nick Saban, and had accepted the job under Kalen DeBoer last season before defecting to the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks.

On Jan. 24, 2024, Saraland five-star wide receiver Ryan William s re-committed to Alabama football, initially ending his commitment after Nick Saban's retirement. One year later, Williams, per DeBoer, has developed into one of the leaders of the Crimson Tide wide receiver room before he's reached his 18th birthday.

Kalen DeBoer’s first season as Alabama football’s head coach didn’t meet expectations. There’s plenty of places where a nine-win season and a bowl appearance would be cause for celebration under a new coach, but Tuscaloosa isn’t one of them, especially after Nick Saban’s tenure.

Kalen DeBoer's first season as Alabama's head football coach is widely believed to be a major flop when looking at it from the "Bama Standard" Nick Saban set. Keeping that aside, DeBoer has done a commendable job with a four-loss season and largely in everything he has done after the conclusion of their season.

It wasn't the season Kalen DeBoer and the Alabama Crimson Tide were hoping for in the first campaign of the post-Nick Saban era.

There’s no answer key or proven scientific formula to grade Kalen DeBoer’s first year as the coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide. Which is to say it is all subjective.

Alabama football did not look the same in 2024 without Nick Saban at head coach. The Crimson Tide hired former Washington coach Kalen DeBoer to take over for Saban after his shocking retirement in January 2024.

McElroy ultimately gave DeBoer a B- for his Year 1 performance. He specifically mentioned Alabama’s bowl game loss to Michigan as a reason for the lower grade:

It was a super inconsistent season for Kalen DeBoer in Alabama after taking over the reins from Nick Saban in 2024. This season was something that he and Alabama fans would want to forget, as the bar was quite high,

Kalen DeBoer stepped into the media swarm at the Reese’s Senior Bowl practice in Mobile, exuding the calm of a man who has seen his fair share of chaos. The post Kalen DeBoer Does Damage Control for Mass Exodus With Multiple Boosters as Alabama Welcome NFL Experience appeared first on EssentiallySports.

Despite missing the College Football Playoffs in his first year as the Alabama head coach, Kalen DeBoer “actually handled (Year 1) properly from a strategic standpoint,” says college football analyst Josh Pate.