A party for three was missing a star Saturday afternoon in Tuscaloosa.

Though three slabs of wet concrete awaited hand and footprints from the 2022 Alabama football captains, only two arrived with a few thousand fans watching at Denny Chimes. Two-time captain Bryce Young could not make it to the A-Day ceremony as Will Anderson and Jordan Battle joined their place in Crimson Tide history.

No specific reason was given for Young’s absence. The only other blank space among recent Alabama captains was next to Tua Tagovailoa’s name after missing the ceremony in 2021 to honor the group that would’ve been immortalized before the canceled 2020 A-Day game.

Young, the potential No. 1 pick in next week’s NFL draft was also a 2021 permanent captain along with Anderson, Evan Neal and Phidarian Mathis.

The ceremony on the Alabama quad had a few other hiccups that Anderson and Battle laughed off. Two of the more light-hearted players away from the field rolled through a microphone power failure and a pair of wet concrete miscues.

First, Battle accidentally stepped on the patch reserved for Anderson’s hand and cleat print.

Then, Anderson struggled to press his foot into the wet concrete.

“Yeah, I lost my balance,” Anderson said with a laugh when asked about it later. “I didn’t think he was stable enough to hold me up so I had to get out of there as quick as possible before I hurt myself.”

“Really?,” Anderson’s mother Tereon Anderson said with a chuckle as she filmed the scene with her phone. “Really??”

As a potential top-5 pick next week, Anderson had to abort that footprint.

“We’re close to that time,” he said, still laughing.

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