Film Room: A Look Back at Jalen Milroe's Historic Day in Lexington

Milroe became the third quarterback in Alabama history to account for six total touchdowns in a game. The other two? Tua Tagovailoa and Bryce Young.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Six touchdowns. That's the historic accomplishment Alabama quarterback Jalen Milroe completed on Saturday at Kentucky in Lexington.

Week-by-week, Milroe's comfort level skyrockets. At this point in the season, you could argue that he is one of the best quarterbacks in the entire country.

For Film Room, we try and look to break down the most important theme of the games. Recently, it's been a whole lot of Milroe — and for good reason.

Roll the tape.

You know how we do things here. We go chronologically through the game, attacking some of Milroe's plays that stood out. We're going to start here:

This is a play-action pass. The misdirection sends several Kentucky players in the wrong direction, so Milroe has the advantage from the jump. He looks up and sees no open targets, so it's time to improvise.

Milroe quickly changes direction, and the Wildcats can't recover quickly enough. It turns into a nice gain and a first down. Milroe actually got hurt on this play, but only missed one play on the sideline.

Later in the drive, the Crimson Tide has a first-and-10 situation. Kendrick Law is the guy in the backfield, but he goes out as a wide receiver, leaving Milroe in an empty set:

Law draws the attention of the left-side safety here, and that's what allows Amari Niblack to slip through the middle of the defense uncovered. Easy throw, easy catch for touchdown No. 1 on the afternoon.

Not everything has to be a huge play. Sometimes, I just like to give credit where credit is due. Milroe hasn't always been making these throws:

This pass takes a lot of touch. It's a good route ran by Isaiah Bond, who creates some separation on the comeback route. But Milroe has to get this in between two defenders — not too short, not too long. He fires it in there to move the sticks.

Here's your highlight play of the day:

Kentucky only rushes three, but it's a nice spin move on the outside by No. 13 on the Wildcats, who gets away from JC Latham. Milroe feels it, and steps up, delivering a beautiful spiral to the end zone for Kobe Prentice.

It's just a simple crossing route. But when Milroe begins scrambling, eyes turn to his feet rather than wide receivers downfield, and that's advantage Alabama.

OK, nothing special here. But it's touchdown No. 3 in the first quarter:

Nothing crazy about this design. It's your good ole fashioned QB sneak for the score. The Crimson Tide is getting pretty good at executing this "Tush Push" thing. For fun, look at Niblack helping his banged up quarterback off the field.

Want to see some growth? Milroe turns down his first couple of reads here:

You can tell he wanted to go the other way with the football. But he reconsiders a couple times, and instead, extends the play outside of the pocket. Roydell Williams slips away from his defender and into open space, and Milroe dinks it over the top.

There's the fourth touchdown. Look at that beautiful block by Malik Benson.

Here's another one of those small but impressive plays:

It's a read option. Milroe makes the correct read to keep the ball himself. He sees more room on the outside, but he also sees that he's going to have to make No. 6 miss — and did he ever.

He's not a running back, folks, but he sure runs like one.

Third-and-17 — not an ideal situation. Earlier in the season, Alabama probably decides to run the ball here and avoid a mistake. With Milroe playing like he is, there's a lot of confidence in the redshirt sophomore.

Look at that pass protection. Does that look like an offensive line that was near the bottom in sacks allowed recently? Sure doesn't. Latham and the rest give Milroe all the time he needs to deliver a strike to Prentice for a long first down.

If you didn't at first, go watch Latham again.

When you have a guy like Milroe at quarterback, it makes situations like first-and-goal at the 3-yard line pretty simple. Tommy Rees dials up QB power:

The Wildcats have a free rusher, but with Milroe's speed, it doesn't matter. That's five.

Alright, fine, one more. Milroe becomes just the third quarterback in school history to record six touchdowns in a game with this sneak for the score. Williams does the dirty work, pushing Milroe into the blue turf with his own hands:

Tua Tagovailoa and Bryce Young — that's the list. Milroe is in pretty good company with who are likely the two best signal-callers to ever play in Tuscaloosa.

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