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Alabama Recruiting 2019: Early Signing Day recap

Only in Tuscaloosa can a team start the day off by losing the #8 recruit in the nation and come away from it in discussion of best recruiting class of all-time.

After Daxton Hill surprisingly (Read: not surprisingly) flipped back to Michigan as the day opened up, Alabama quickly recovered by getting the LOI from Jordan Battle, a 4-star safety only slightly lower rated than Hill. The Tide went on to sign every single commit they already had aside from the three (Keilan Robinson, Byron Young, and Christian Williams) expected to sign in February. Just that alone would be enough to leave the Tide with a number 1 class most years, but the recent success of Georgia in the recruiting spheres, coupled with the high, and thus far unmet, expectations from early this season, had fans across the state venting their worries all over the message boards.