Watch: Alabama Center Bradley Bozeman Proposes After Crimson Tide Win National Championship

Bradley Bozeman gets a national championship ring. His girlfriend gets an engagement ring. 
Watch: Alabama Center Bradley Bozeman Proposes After Crimson Tide Win National Championship
Watch: Alabama Center Bradley Bozeman Proposes After Crimson Tide Win National Championship /

Alabama center Bradley Bozeman put an exclamation mark on dramatic night by asking his girlfriend to marry him. 

Bozeman, a fifth-year senior and second-year starter, got down on one knee in the postgame pandemonium and popped the question to Nikki Hegstetter. Suffice it to say she was shocked. 

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This is Bozeman’s second national championship since arriving on campus in 2013. He tore his ACL as a senior in high school and battled back to take over the starting job once Ryan Kelly left for the NFL. Now he’ll be busy preparing for a possible career in the pros—and planning a wedding. 


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Dan Gartland is the writer and editor of Sports Illustrated’s flagship daily newsletter, SI:AM, covering everything an educated sports fan needs to know. He joined the SI staff in 2014, having previously been published on Deadspin and Slate. Gartland, a graduate of Fordham University, is a former Sports Jeopardy! champion (Season 1, Episode 5).