COLLEGE FOOTBALL February 20, 2026 0 Comments

How Alabama’s Shrewd Buyouts Are Quietly Out-Earning Auburn—and What It Means Next

Colin Gay examines how Alabama will replace TE Josh Cuevas.

The youth movement started in the 2025 recruiting cycle with two four-star additions in Kaleb Edwards and Marshall Pritchett. Mack Sutter continued that trend in 2026, along with two transfer additions — Josh Ford and Jaxon Shuttlesworth — who have three seasons of eligibility each.

Alabama is looking to the future with its tight ends room, and seemingly has stability for the years to come.

That starts with Kaleb Edwards, who was thrown into the fire as an Alabama freshman despite enrolling in the program during the summer.

Edwards was the only other tight end on the Alabama roster, along with Cuevas, to play more than 80 snaps in 2025, playing 369 across 15 games, per Pro Football Focus. As a true freshman, Edwards had 11 catches for 150 yards and a touchdown.

Jamey Mosley is getting a crack at on-field coaching.

Stanford head coach Tavita Pritchard announced the hiring of Jamey Mosley as the Cardinal’s defensive line coach, adding a former Alabama walk‑on turned national champion who spent the last five seasons on the Crimson Tide’s defensive staff.

Mosley, a Mobile, Ala., native, worked with Alabama’s defensive line as a graduate assistant and defensive analyst from 2021–25. He was part of multiple top‑20 defensive units, including the 2025 group that helped propel the Crimson Tide to the College Football Playoff while ranking 13th nationally in total defense and tied for 19th in tackles for loss.

Pritchard praised Mosley’s background and coaching trajectory. “Jamey Mosley embodies everything we want in a Stanford football coach — competitor, connector, and a championship mindset,” Pritchard said. “He’s a rising star in this profession, and I’m excited for our defensive linemen to develop under his leadership.”

Good for him.

Last, the NCAA is signaling that they may pursue sanctions against schools who played players under temporary injunctions.

A dozen athletes have been granted injunctions for extended eligibility in the last year and many of the cases continue onward, where the NCAA has a chance to win the case and then, in turn, penalize schools for playing those athletes.

As it turns out, the reigning football national champions are involved. In its march to the national title this year, Indiana used a player originally deemed ineligible by the NCAA but permitted to play through a court’s injunction: safety Louis Moore, who played in all 16 games and finished third on the team with 88 tackles. The case, filed in Texas, is continuing onward.

If the NCAA eventually wins, could the association vacate the Hoosiers’ national championship? That is highly unlikely. But the NCAA wants these cases to continue as a way to (1) afford it the option to, at the very least, fine a school for playing an ineligible player, (2) set judicial precedent for future cases and (3) create a chilling effect or deterrent for other school administrators contemplating using an ineligible player.

Like Charles Bediako, those players sued the NCAA for eligibility. The difference is that they were granted temporary injunction, so their teams continued to play them. The NCAA has appealed those injunctions, and the players’ representation has moved to dismiss those appeals as moot since the players involved are now out of eligibility. The NCAA is pursuing the appeal, however, in effort to see the injunctions overturned so that they may punish the institutions for playing ineligible players.