Alabama QB injures foot

Alabama QB Jake Coker has injured his foot, which will put him out for several days, it has been announced.

Alabama head coach Nick Saban said in a statement: “Jake Coker has a minor foot injury that we think will keep him out of practice for several days. Our physicians anticipate full recovery.”

Thanks to the secretive nature of Alabama’s team plans, no-one really knows who was in front during the QB battle – although it was presumed that Coker, who came to Alabama from Florida State last season as a graduate season. He had previously battled Jameis Winston for the Seminoles starting job, but he (obviously) didn’t win. Coker came to Alabama, but lost out on the starting QB job to Blake Sims, and now – with him battling freshman Blake Barnett and redshirt freshman QB David Cornwell – the luck doesn’t look to be on his side again.

Sporting News noted that Saban is getting very grumpy about the starting quarterback situation. “Somebody’s gotta make it happen. I can’t make it happen…As bad as I’d like to make it happen, I can’t make it happen,” he is quoted as saying. “If it doesn’t get decided, like it didn’t when AJ (McCarron) and Phillip Sims were here, they both played a quarter, a quarter, a quarter, a quarter in the first game, and that’s how we figured it out.”

Alabama’s first game of the season is against Wisconsin at JerryWorld…so that should be some baptism.

Expect Derrick Henry and Kenyan Drake to be licking their lips….as well as the two running backs’ fantasy owners!

In terms of the Alabama QB race, a lot of people still expect Jacob Coker to be named to be Alabama’s starting quarterback for the Wisconsin. Frankly, we think Blake Barnett’s got more upside, but Barnett’s still a freshman.