{"id":459675,"date":"2023-09-18T23:24:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=459675"},"modified":"2023-09-18T23:24:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:24:35","slug":"saban-names-milroe-alabamas-starting-quarterback","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/saban-names-milroe-alabamas-starting-quarterback\/","title":{"rendered":"Saban names Milroe Alabama\u2019s starting quarterback."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Alabama QB competition is finished at this stage.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Alabama HC Nick Saban announced that QB Jalen Milroe &#8220;earned the opportunity to be the quarterback&#8221; this Saturday against Ole Miss.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/finebaum?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@finebaum<\/a>)<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OJ9qJrwVTA\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/OJ9qJrwVTA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Yahoo Sports College Football (@YahooSportsCFB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YahooSportsCFB\/status\/1703826510132482089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jalen Milroe, who began from the 1<sup>st<\/sup> minute in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> 2 matches of the campaign but did not appear vs. USF this last weekend, has &#8220;earned the chance to be the QB&#8221; in the future, manager Nick Saban shared with the media.<\/p>\n<p>Tide starts SEC play vs. Ole Miss at their stadium during the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Nick claimed that Milroe had played better than Tyler Buchner and\u00a0 Ty Simpson in competition and that putting him on the bench against USF greatly affected him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will not share anymore about this topic,&#8221; Saban shared of the QB situation. &#8220;Jalen really showed the leadership I expected in terms of positively affecting his teammates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jalen supported his teammates from the sideline as they were entering and leaving the match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alabama QB competition is finished at this stage. Alabama HC Nick Saban announced that QB Jalen Milroe &#8220;earned the opportunity to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":459676,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19147,19523],"news_category":[16705,14084],"gn_keywords":[19743,19525,21441,21440],"acf":{"announce":"Jalen will be Bama\u2019s QB1 ahead of the SEC opener.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/459675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459675"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/459675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459682,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/459675\/revisions\/459682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459675"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=459675"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=459675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}