For long, wide receiver Ryan Williams has been the face of the Alabama Crimson Tide. “Ryan Williams is going to be kind of that alpha number one,” predicted Clint Lamb ahead of the season. Eight weeks into the 2025 season, his stats stand at 21 receptions for 336 yards and three touchdowns. But looks like something might stop Williams from touching the “alpha number one” status. Drops have plagued the wide receiver during his sophomore season so far. That’s when Kalen DeBoer cooked up a strategy to fix it. And it definitely did not ‘fit’ into the conventional way of training.

On October 14, analyst Patrick Greenfield dropped clips of practice from the Tuscaloosa camp. The caption read, “Alabama WRs catching Tennis balls in practice today.” In one of the clips, Williams can be

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