Photos and Video from Alabama Football's First Practice of Spring 2023

Check out the Crimson Tide in action on its first practice of the spring football season.

Joey Blackwell | Mar 20, 2023

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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The cold weather wasn't enough to keep Alabama football from returning to practice on Monday afternoon as the Crimson Tide hosted its first practice of the 2023 spring season.

The team practiced in helmets and shorts outdoors at the Thomas-Drew Practice Fields. Regarding weather conditions, temperatures hovered in the mid-50s Fahrenheit with clear skies and winds blowing 4 m.p.h. due southwest.

Alabama head coach Nick Saban also hosted his first press conference of the season. During his meeting with reporters, Saban took a moment to talk about he and his staff's approach to the transfer portal.

"Well, you know what we've tried to do when it comes to the portal is look at guys that we think can make an immediate impact on our team," Saban said. "We have always tried to build our team with good recruiting of good young players, who sort of fit the culture of what we want to do, and if we feel like we have a need at a position where we see someone who can come in and make an immediate impact, and I think most of the players that we've taken from the portal, and I think there's been six prior to this year, five of those guys all made significant impacts on the team. One guy got injured and probably didn't have the opportunity to do it, or he probably would have made an impact as well.

"So we're going to continue that same philosophy of how we bring guys into the team. We still have to manage the roster. We still have to manage numbers. And I think you always got to take that into consideration when you're dealing with the portal as well."

Check out the video in this article of the Crimson Tide's first practice as well as the photos gallery below.

Gallery: Alabama Football Practice - March 20, 2023

Published Mar 20, 2023

JOEY BLACKWELL

Joey Blackwell is an award-winning journalist and assistant editor for BamaCentral and has covered the Crimson Tide since 2018. He primarily covers Alabama football, men's basketball and baseball, but also covers a wide variety of other sports. Joey earned his bachelor's degree in History from Birmingham-Southern College in 2014 before graduating summa cum laude from the University of Alabama in 2020 with a degree in News Media. He has also been featured in a variety of college football magazines, including Lindy's Sports and BamaTime.