Through much of the first year and a half of Kalen DeBoer’s tenure, Alabama’s defense has had a glaring weakness: mobile quarterbacks. Diego Pavia first exposed it last season with Vanderbilt’s upset win, and Kane Wommack’s unit has fallen victim to a few others since.
However, those run defense issues appeared to be rectified last week as the Crimson Tide avenged their loss to Pavia’s Commodores 30-14. That theory will be tested in Week 7 as Alabama visits Beau Pribula and Missouri, but the bigger concern could be slowing down the nation’s leading rusher, running back Ahmad Hardy.