Ryan Grubb Details What Traits Alabama’s Quarterback Needs to Have

Alabama still has an ongoing quarterback battle, despite two comments from Ryan Grubb "naming" Ty Simpson as the starting quarterback at the end of spring and again on Thursday with Ryan Fowler.

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Ryan Grubb, Kalen DeBoer, and Nick Sheridan will decide who the next quarterback at Alabama is. On Thursday, Grubb shared his "non-negotiable traits" that Alabama's starting quarterback needs to have to win the starting job.

"Elite decision maker. You obviously got to have all the physical attributes that the ball can be spread to the right places on the field, but decision-making, command, and leadership are non-negotiables," Grubb said.

"Those are things that every great quarterback is gonna have. There's things that we talk about quite a bit that the rest of the guys, the quarterbacks - you wanna have. They make everybody in the facility better. When they walk in, everybody is doing better."

"Work Ethic and how they approach their days, and everybody looks at them from the same approach."

Consistency is something Nick Saban looked for in his starting quarterbacks, and that won't change with Kalen DeBoer and Ryan Grubb at the helm of the offense.

"I think it's really hard to have an elite offense and an elite football team, championship-level team when you don't have a guy that's the same guy showing up every day," Grubb said. "That's one of the things we talk about in the quarterback room quite a bit, is just being the same guy every day, so your teammates know what to expect. You're gonna push them, you're also gonna support them, but it's the same. You don't show up one day, and the guy was like, he was on one today. The next day, you're not the same. I think there's a lot of value in that."

Grubb doubled down on his comments from after spring practice, saying if Alabama had to play a game today, Ty Simpson would be the starting quarterback, "As an older guy, I thought, especially toward the latter part of spring, he started to show more of those characteristics."

Wyatt Fulton is the Tide 100.9 DME and Brand Manager, primarily covering Alabama Crimson Tide football and men's basketball. For more Crimson Tide coverage, follow Wyatt on X (Formerly known as Twitter) at @FultonW_.