{"id":12846,"date":"2026-04-30T02:48:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T02:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/kalen-deboer-gives-positive-ej-crowell-injury-update-for-alabama-football-the-tuscaloosa-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T02:48:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T02:48:45","slug":"kalen-deboer-gives-positive-ej-crowell-injury-update-for-alabama-football-the-tuscaloosa-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/kalen-deboer-gives-positive-ej-crowell-injury-update-for-alabama-football-the-tuscaloosa-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalen DeBoer gives positive EJ Crowell injury update for Alabama football &#8211; The Tuscaloosa News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BIRMINGHAM \u2014 <a href=https:\/\/www.tuscaloosanews.com\/story\/sports\/college\/football\/2026\/03\/27\/ej-crowell-injury-means-for-alabama-football-rb-room\/89232805007\/>EJ Crowell<\/a> is on the mend for <a href=https:\/\/www.tuscaloosanews.com\/story\/sports\/college\/football\/2026\/04\/29\/nick-saban-kalen-deboer-alabama-football-contract-extension\/89782358007\/>Alabama football<\/a>.<br \/>The <a href=https:\/\/www.tuscaloosanews.com\/story\/sports\/college\/football\/2026\/04\/29\/junior-tuupo-alabama-football-2027-recruiting-class\/89782553007\/>Crimson Tide <\/a>freshman running back missed the majority of his first spring with an injury. He was seen wearing a boot and riding a scooter on his right leg at A-Day.<br \/>In his appearance at the Drummond Company Celebrity Pro-Am before the Regions Tradition Golf Tournament at Greystone Country Club in Birmingham, <a target=_blank href=https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/teams\/alabama-crimson-tide\/3478\/ data-autotag=6c1f0d70-9904-45ac-a261-5bcd28d2a449>Alabama<\/a> coach Kalen DeBoer said Crowell is continuing to work his way back.<br \/>&#8220;I think by the time we get to June, we&#8217;ll be in a good spot,&#8221; DeBoer said. &#8220;That&#8217;s everything I&#8217;m hearing and feeling. That&#8217;s going to be really critical for him to get the summer in, not just from a workout standpoint but they run the player-run practices. Any reps for him will be good, quality ways for him to continue to improve in his development here especially early in his career.&#8221;<br \/>As a senior at Jackson High School, Crowell had 2,632 rushing yards and 35 touchdowns on 209 carries. In 2025, the\u00a0<a href=https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/teams\/alabama-crimson-tide\/3478\/ target=_blank rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alabama<\/a>\u00a0run game that finished near the bottom of the SEC with 104.13 rushing guards per game and 3.35 yards per rush.<br \/>Alabama opens the 2026 season at home against <a target=_blank href=https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/teams\/east-carolina-pirates\/3504\/ data-autotag=cfb3febb-ece1-4350-b45a-372fa225e56a>East Carolina<\/a> Saturday, Sept. 5.<br \/><em>Colin Gay covers Alabama football for The Tuscaloosa News, part of the USA TODAY Network. Reach him at <\/em><a href=mailto:cgay@gannett.com><em>cgay@gannett.com<\/em><\/a><em> or follow him <\/em><a href=https:\/\/x.com\/_ColinGay><em>@_ColinGay<\/em><\/a><em> on X, formerly known as Twitter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi6gFBVV95cUxPbWg5Znk3OFlYWGRiQWd1XzlWdWR2UU14QlFiOVI0cl9VWGFVb1NtbnJ3MHhUVUN0bjNXMTgwY29fcmlQZjRGVDJHTTVsNU14THJCRkQ0QWk3dk11ZGtHNXREOGdNTWxIQllkVFVVeDhqXzJyNTQzUVJTLUtiUm5LSWJ6QTEwbnZ3cnRmaDVNbXcyNTFEaUI0a2tDa0s3TDV1UXdzVHRtZzFHX011SmI4aFhlUmNjcmE0RkYtSWs3YW8zdEsydlBnNlhaemJyNVZyelFvOWZYSlI0VnpKSWltdHRGSE1RZExUSFE?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIRMINGHAM \u2014 EJ Crowell is on the mend for Alabama football.The Crimson Tide freshman running back missed the majority of his first spring with an injury. He was seen wearing a boot and riding a scooter on his right leg at A-Day.In his appearance at the Drummond Company Celebrity Pro-Am before the Regions Tradition Golf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}