Luke Metz

But the one-handed catches are, of course, left for Josh Ford, who plays the game, by the way, with a broken arm.

All right, on the defensive side, Starts with Luke Metz.

45 tackles.

Leads the team, right? And he's got a pick six.

I think he has a fumble recovery.

He's literally on every single play.

I would imagine that a lot of people are either buying Keelan Russell jerseys or Luke Metz.

They're young.

I want to ask you guys about Alabama, Tennessee.

Here is Luke Metz on Deshaun Bishop and stopping Tennessee's run.

Cut number two, Tyler.

Here's Metz.

And so there's questions at defensive tackle, and then at linebacker they had some issues with those guys kind of fitting the run and, and getting the right gap and all that against Georgia.

So that's something they n- they need to do a well, as well better against, um, Tennessee with Luke Metz, who's a, a fairly young linebacker that they have, and then, um, Caleb Woodson, who's a transfer from Virginia Tech.

So, um, yeah, I, again, to kind of summarize, I think it's, it's been a good run defense for Alabama, but there are potential issues with the injury to Green and with what we saw in the second half against Georgia, where a very good running team like Tennessee and Deshaun Bishop, who had a very good game against Alabama last year, could take advantage of that, um, just like Tennessee did two years ago with, um, with Dylan Sampson.

You know, had a, a pretty good game against Alabama when they won that game.

You know, the, uh, different variations of, of what you're gonna see.

And so, uh, the way the game was going from a run/fit standpoint, all the different, uh, run variations that they were showing, we felt like Luke Metz and, and Caleb Woodson were the hot hand.

They were playing really well, uh, really physical, and they were kind of really dialed into all the pictures and variations.

And so we just didn't get a chance probably to, to get him in as much in that situation.

Play-making ability.

Gotta have a wide receiver step up, especially in a game like this on rivalry week.

Luke Metz leading the team in tackles.

Sophomore, sophomore, junior, by the way.

If you stop the run against Tennessee, I'm not really sure how they're gonna score.

And I think you give credit to a lot of Alabama, especially their second-level defenders, the way that Caleb Woodson's playing, the way that Luke Metz is playing, Bray Hubbard at that safety position but playing down in the box so often.

I, I think that's really such a big key.

I mean, that's-- You're right.