The season has long since passed and spring practice is still several weeks away, but that doesn’t mean we can’t start looking ahead.
At Alabama, the race to repeat as national champions began the minute the team flew home from Arizona.
With that in mind, here are five players who had varying degrees of success last season but could be in for big leaps in production in 2016:
QB Cooper Bateman: It’s not now or never for Bateman, but it feels like it’s heading that way. It’s just the nature of the beast at Alabama where if you don’t become a star during your first two years on campus, there’s a hoard of blue-chip prospects ready to jump you on the depth chart.