Every summer, former Alabama quarterbacks coach Dan Enos gave each of his players a series of individual drills. Although players were on campus, NCAA restrictions limited the Crimson Tide coaches in the time they could work with the team.
But it didn't mean they couldn't watch from afar. Offensive coordinator Mike Locksley had about as good a view as anyone, with the window from his office looking out onto Alabama's practice fields.
Seemingly every time Locksley glanced out during that 2018 summer, there was Layne Hatcher.
"There would be one guy doing the drills full speed," Locksley, now the head coach at Maryland, told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.