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Austin Mack is in as Alabama football QB. 3 things you need to know
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- Austin Mack is in as Alabama football QB. 3 things you need to know
Austin Mack is running the Alabama football offense against Louisiana Monroe.
With 11:38 left in the second quarter, Mack, a redshirt sophomore, entered the game for Crimson Tide quarterback Ty Simpson with Alabama holding a 28-0 lead against ULM.
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Here are three things you need to know about Mack.
Austin Mack has seen the Alabama football field before
Mack has one game's worth of playing experience with Alabama football.
Mack entered Alabama's 52-7 2024 win against Mercer and led the Crimson Tide on a touchdown drive. He completed two of three pass attempts for 39 yards, including a 31-yard touchdown pass to Rico Scott .
Mack entered the 2025 season as the only Alabama quarterback with a collegiate touchdown pass.
Austin Mack followed Kalen DeBoer to Alabama
Mack originally signed with Washington in the Huskies' 2023 recruiting class. He reclassified and joined the Huskies a season early to work in the same quarterback room as Michael Penix Jr.
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When DeBoer was hired at Alabama, Mack was one of X Huskies players to follow the head coach to Tuscaloosa, along with wide receiver Germie Bernard , tight end Josh Cuevas and center Parker Brailsford .
Austin Mack was once a four-star quarterback
Mack, out of Folsom, California, was a four-star quarterback in the 2023 class. He was the No. 16 quarterback in the country per 247Sports' composite rankings.
As a staring quarterback at Folsom High School, Mack had 3,498 passing yards, 40 touchdowns and five interceptions in 2022.
Colin Gay covers Alabama football for The Tuscaloosa News, part of the USA TODAY Network. Reach him at cgay@gannett.com or follow him @_ColinGay on X, formerly known as Twitter.
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