Alabama football: With starting job up in the air, Hurts ‘just keeps getting better and better’

Alabama quarterback Jalen Hurts works during spring practice Tuesday.

TUSCALOOSA — The same question that’s being asked now was also posed two years ago: Who’s going to be Alabama’s starting quarterback? On the Sept. 3, 2016 opener, the answer was Blake Barnett. He beat out Jalen Hurts.

Talk about a blast from the past.

Everyone knows how that played out. Hurts, who was a freshman then and will be a junior come fall, later entered the game and stole the job. Barnett transferred.

“Jalen just keeps getting better and better,” Tide tight end Hale Hentges said.