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Jalen Milroe gives Alabama football preview of 2025 WR room: 'We have a special group'
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The Alabama football secondary will be fine without Malachi Moore . The former safety admitted it, listing off a deluge of names — Zabien Brown , Zavier Mincey , Domani Jackson , Dre Kirkpatrick Jr. , Red Morgan , even freshman Dijon Lee — as players set to pick up right where he left off.
But when Moore was asked at Alabama football Pro Day 2025 which player wowed him, the one that stood out most after his first offseason away from the Crimson Tide , he went to the receiver room.
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"The biggest one would probably be Rico Scott for me," Moore said without wasting much time.
It's not that Scott has changed much to Moore. The wide receiver has always been a hard worker, Moore said. He's never complained about playing time, and always kept his head down, did what he was told and put that extra work in. It's what Scott's day-to-day grind, which Moore knew well, what it turned into.
"I've just seen him really just take his game to another level," Moore said.
It was a transformation Jalen Milroe allowed to be put on full display Wednesday morning as Scott, along with Ryan Williams , Germie Bernard and Isaiah Horton , the Miami transfer and one of the newest members of the Crimson Tide receiver room, worked with the quarterback during his Pro Day.
And while the receivers were able to help show off what Milroe was able to do with his arm, Milroe gave NFL teams a preview of what Alabama 's wide receiver room will look like come Aug. 30 against Florida State.
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"We have a lot of great talent in the receiver room," Milroe said, adding running back Jam Miller and NFL-bound tight ends CJ Dippre and Robbie Ouzts into the mix too. "We have a special group, and it was just a lot of fun to show the script we had been working."
Jalen Milroe praises Ryan Williams , Isaiah Horton
The praise of Alabama 's wide receivers didn't start with Milroe.
Early on in spring practice, Alabama coach Kalen DeBoer and offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb have described the receiver room as a major strength, one that has vastly more weapons than the Crimson Tide did a year ago, where Bernard and Williams accounted for more than half of the room's total production.
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As Milroe goes to the NFL, and Williams approaches his highly-anticipated Year 2, Milroe can't help but look back at the progress he made just with being around the Alabama football program, progress he expects from Williams.
"The more you play football, the more you are around the University of Alabama, you are going to build and get better," Milroe said. "And so I'm excited to see what his future looks like in the coming years because this is someone who loves football and someone who is very talented and unique in his own way. He's definitely going to continue to elevate and build his game."
Horton was brand new to Milroe, a receiver quarterback Ty Simpson knew from his Tennessee high school football days who had spent his first three seasons at Miami. But Horton was a receiver Milroe was impressed by.
"Number one (thing) I like about him is his approach to the game of football, and him being able to be detail-oriented in the way he approaches the game," Milroe said. "He has good hands, good feet and I like how he approaches football. And I can see that with his passion for the game."
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Whoever takes the first snap at quarterback against the Seminoles is expected by DeBoer, by Grubb and by Milroe to have a barrage of weapons at his disposal.
And for Moore, that still starts with Scott.
"He's looking good," Moore said.
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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