No time was wasted on Nick Saban’s weekly radio show as the topic of the week was addressed right from the start.

How’s Bryce Young?

Saban got the golden question and added a little more insight from previous answers given this week.

“There’s no real bad damage or anything like that so it’s not a long-term thing,” Saban said. “But he still has some soreness and we’ll have to make a game-time decision before the game in pregame to see if he can throw the ball well enough to go out there and do his job. So he has been able to practice some.

“Bryce is a great competitor. He’ll want to go out there and play the best he can but sometimes you have to protect players from themselves because they’ve got to be able to go out and create value for themselves and be healthy enough to do it the right way. He’s a sharp guy. He’ll know whether he’ll be able to go out there and do it.”

Young was injured in the second quarter of last week’s 49-26 win over No. 20 Arkansas in Fayetteville. Redshirt freshman Jalen Milroe came off the bench to help lead the 21-3 fourth-quarter surge after the Razorbacks got within five points.

“This really and truly will be a pregame decision,” Saban said, “because the way we’ve treated this is overuse would really set him back so the longer we could go without him throwing, the better off we are in terms of the healing process.”

Michael Casagrande is a reporter for the Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @ByCasagrande or on Facebook.