How Nick Saban has evolved in naming Alabama's QB leading up to Bryce Young

There isn’t likely to be any “official” proclamation of Alabama football’s starting quarterback for the season opener against Miami, at least not in the way that many NFL teams, or the Crimson Tide’s division rival, Texas A&M, did last week with freshman Haynes King getting the nod.

Alabama has been through that before, roughly up until 2015 or so. Nick Saban loves competition at every position, so much so that he wouldn’t even specifically name A.J. McCarron as the 2013 starter even though McCarron had two national championship rings. It was a matter of principle, not a cloud of mystery, but Saban stuck to it.