Alabama WR transfers to Mississippi State

Former Alabama wide receiver Tyrell Shavers is transferring to Mississippi State.

He will be available to play for Mike Leach’s offense immediately – which means he’ll be able to catch balls from CJ Costello, the former Stanford starter who transferred to Starkville earlier this year. He has two years of eligibility left after redshirting in 2017.

In 2018 Shavers played in all 13 games but didn’t have a statistic, and he appeared in all of Alabama’s games in 2019, but only had a 14 yard rush and a 20 yard catch to his name, and recovered a blocked punt for a touchdown. While that is sad for him, if you look at Alabama’s wide receiving corps during 2018 and 2019, that is not particularly surprising, if saddening for the player himself.

He chose to go to Mississippi State over Texas, where he was heavily recruited by Tom Herman and Mike Yurchich, but decided to stay in the SEC West. This is somewhat ironic since he played high school in the Lone Star State. Shavers was also getting interest from UCF, TCU and Baylor among others.

Despite being 6 ft and running a 4.38 – and coming into Tuscaloosa ranked as the country’s 12th-best high school wide receiver, Shavers didn’t stand out in Alabama’s loaded wide receiver line-up. Shavers arrived at Alabama having decided not to play at Auburn, Texas, Texas A&M, Florida State or Georgia, amongst others.

We wonder if he regrets not going to the Crimson Tide now.