Alabama football held its latest spring practice Tuesday, and it provided another glimpse for reporters to see the Crimson Tide.

The practice session was the second time this spring that coach Kalen DeBoer and Alabama have opened up practice to media members, just days before practice becomes open to the general public essentially with A-Day on Saturday. That’s expected to be more of a practice than an actual game.

The practice viewing period Tuesday lasted about 20 minutes, and most of it was individual drill work. There was no offense vs. defense or anything resembling plays. But there was still an opportunity to see the quarterbacks in action as the competition continues.

AL.com spent all of the viewing period watching quarterbacks Ty Simpson, Austin Mack and Keelon Russell. Here’s what we noticed.

Alabama QB practice observations

• The first drill the quarterbacks ran included throwing back-shoulder passes to receivers against a staff member or coach. So it wasn’t quite against “air” but it also wasn’t against a defensive back. One throw that stood out was when Russell hit fellow freshman Lotzeir Brooks on a pass.
• The next drill, quarterbacks threw to open receivers, facing no one. Simpson and Russell threw next to each other on one side of the field, toward the end zone. Austin Mack and a walk-on threw next to each other from the end zone.
• Next drill, the quarterbacks took part in drills with running backs. That included handoffs as well as short passes to the running backs. The order the quarterbacks went through these drills: Simpson then Mack then Russell. That appeared largely to be based on experience/seniority.
• Next drill, all four quarterbacks, including the walk-on, threw next to each other at the same time to different receivers running different routes downfield. The quarterbacks would switch spots to get a chance to make different throws. One of the early noticeable passes from this drill was from Simpson to Isaiah Horton, the Miami transfer. Simpson hit Horton on a pass about 20 yards along the left sideline. Simpson also threw a laser to Brooks about 10 yards on what looked to be a curl route. Once again, all of these passes were against air, not defenders.
• During that drill, the last reporters got to see, Mack had one throw in which he targeted Rico Scott who was running toward the sideline but it looked like the pass didn’t have quite enough air. So Scott had to cut his route a little short it looked like to be able to make the catch. But Mack also had a beautiful throw to Horton on a deep pass a few minutes later along the left sideline.

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