It didn’t take long after Alabama’s exclusion from the College Football Playoff before Crimson Tide players started entering the transfer portal, marking the beginning of another shift in the makeup of the roster in Tuscaloosa under Kalen DeBoer.

There was no portal to take any guys from, I guess other than programs that lost head coaches, and that’s the situation we were in.” “We’re going to build our program with the freshman class, which I’m really excited about the signees,

Transfer wide receivers have a good track record at Alabama. A transfer has been the Crimson Tide's leading receiver in two of the last four seasons with Jameson Williams in 2021 and Jermaine Burton in 2022. Bernard was Alabama's second-leading receiver with 714 yards as a transfer in 2024.