Alabama football players heard the trash talk from Auburn. On Tuesday after practice, they didn’t have much to say about it.

“I don’t really get into it,” Crimson Tide tight end CJ Dippre said. “I don’t talk that much. I don’t even think I trash talk on the field, and I kind of just want to focus on going 1-0 and doing that this week.”

Auburn freshman linebacker Demarcus Riddick made headlines on Monday, saying he wouldn’t lose to Alabama during his time on the Plains. He also took a shot at UA freshman wide receiver Ryan Williams, who Riddick said “ain’t no big-time player.”

Williams’ Crimson Tide teammates disagreed.

“Definitely,” safety Malachi Moore said when asked if he felt Williams was in fact a big-time player.

Defensive lineman Tim Keenan went even further.

“I definitely think Ryan Williams is a big-time player,” Keenan said. “I think that’s the best 17-year-old I’ve ever seen, Ryan Williams. I’m a big fan of Ryan Williams. The plays he made. His impact, his influence. Ryan Williams is probably the biggest star to me ever.”

Alabama enters Saturday’s game fresh off its worst performance of the season in a loss at Oklahoma. The Tigers have a bit of momentum after beating Texas A&M in four overtimes on Saturday.

Keenan said he wasn’t surprised to hear the trash talking coming from Auburn.

“Teams have talked before,” Keenan said. “They’ve had this and that to say. Auburn’s a good team and we’re just preparing for them the best way we can.”

Quarterback Jalen Milroe seemed amused by Riddick’s trash talk.

“I don’t even know who that is,” Milroe said. “Let him talk. It’s a part of it.”

Alabama safety Malachi Moore is trying to become the first player in the history of the rivalry to win the Iron Bowl five times. He also didn’t engage much with the chatter.

Moore explained Alabama’s reluctance to engage much.

“We feel like we play our best football when all our energy is focused on our assignment and our keys and being connected with each other,” Moore said. “Getting involved in a lot of trash talking kind of gets us off task and off focus of what we’re there to do and that’s to beat the man in front of us every play, and do it as a team and together.”

Alabama and Auburn are scheduled to kick off at 6:30 p.m. CT Saturday in Tuscaloosa. The Iron Bowl will be aired on ABC.