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Lotzeir Brooks made his first start for Alabama football against Louisiana Monroe.

Alabama coach Kalen DeBoer praised Brooks for elevating his game and playing with "violence."

Brooks holds New Jersey high school records for career receiving yards and touchdowns.

Millville High School football coach Humberto Ayala knows Lotzeir Brooks is not the most responsive when it comes to phone calls or texts. But when Ayala found out that his former wide receiver was about to make his first start for Alabama football , he had to send a message.

“Put the college football world on notice,” Ayala remembers writing. “Let them know what you are.”

Ayala already knew what Brooks was: the record-breaking New Jersey wide receiver who consistently moved around the backfield to

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