Under Kalen DeBoer, the University of Alabama has hired a new staff member to manage the Crimson Tide’s social media accounts.
Tony Jones is the associate director of player personnel for the Crimson Tide. Due to an injury, Jones, a football player at
Northwestern University, only played a brief season in the National Football League with the Washington Football Team. At the
University of Michigan, he started as an operations assistant and worked his way up to become the director of high school relations
and the recruitment coordinator. Behind the scenes, Jones assisted the Wolverines in winning both the Big Ten and College Football
Playoff National Championships in 2023. Being a part of Alabama football now excites him.
We’ll watch how Jones shapes out the team that the Tide will field in the autumn.
The Kansas City Chiefs’ 25-22 overtime victory over the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday was the culmination of a tortuous journey that
lasted almost ten years for former Alabama defensive end Isaiah Buggs.
In 2017, after transferring from Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Buggs made his debut at Alabama. He started 13 of 14
games in his first campaign, recording 51 tackles and 1.5 sacks in his junior year. When he returned in 2018 as a senior, Buggs
maintained his stellar play, recording 52 tackles and 9.5 sacks, which earned him a spot on the second team of the SEC.
Even though he excelled in college, Buggs faced several difficulties on his NFL career. After being selected in the sixth round of the
2019 NFL Draft by the Pittsburgh Steelers, Buggs spent three seasons in Pittsburgh before playing for the Detroit Lions and Las Vegas
Raiders. Over the span of five years, he was on a rollercoaster ride between practice squads and active teams in the league.
In 27 games during the previous two seasons with the Lions, Buggs recorded 58 tackles, two sacks, a forced fumble, and a fumble
recovery. After being cut loose by Detroit last month, Buggs signed a practice squad contract in January at Kansas City in search of
fresh opportunities.
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