Kalen DeBoer’s first season as the head coach at Alabama after Nick Saban announced his retirement in January has already been a tumultuous one and he hasn’t even played a game. DeBoer tabbed Ryan Grubb to be his first offensive coordinator with the Crimson Tide, but Grubb decided to leave the program to take the same role with the Seattle Seahawks. Now, DeBoer has hired former Washington tight ends coach Nick Sheridan, a former Michigan quarterback who was previously an offensive coordinator at Indiana, to fill that role.
DeBoer’s former wide receivers coach at Washington JaMarcus Shepard will fill the same role at Alabama and will also be a co-offensive coordinator with Sheridan. How will Sheridan and Shepard be received on the Michigan football recruiting trail and how has DeBoer set out to tackle his first full Alabama recruiting class in 2025? If you want to see the latest Alabama recruiting and coaching news, be sure to see what the proven team of insiders are saying at Bama247, the 247Sports affiliate that covers Alabama.
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One player from the 2025 class that DeBoer’s staff is interested in is Folsom (Calif.) defensive lineman Josiah Sharma. A three-star prospect, Sharma was once committed to Washington but ultimately decided to open his recruitment back up late last month and then was offered by DeBoer and Alabama the next day.
However, he’s also added offers from Ole Miss, Texas and Oregon in the weeks since his decommitment and his recruitment looks pretty wide open once again. The 6-foot-5, 295-pound interior defender is currently ranked as the No. 66…
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