Alabama just slammed the door shut on one of the most-wanted big men in the country. Four-star interior offensive lineman Chris Booker, a 6-foot-4, 285-pound bulldozer out of Atlanta, made it official Sunday: he’s locked in with Bama and shutting it all down. No more visits. No more phone calls. Not even a side-eye at Georgia or Florida, who made late runs for the rising mauler.
On June 22nd, Chris Booker took it to IG, confirming his shut down: “I’m home, nobody does it like Bama! RTR,” Hayes Fawcett approved. And just in case that wasn’t clear enough, Andrew Boone added: “There just isn’t anywhere else that can do it like Bama.” This was a full-circle win for Kalen DeBoer, O-line coach Chris Kapilovic, and GM Courtney Morgan—they jumped on Booker back in February when most of the SEC world barely had him on radar. At the time? Booker was a 3-star. Now? He’s top-300 in the country and climbing fast, sitting as the No. 287 overall per 247Composite.
And just when you thought DeBoer was out of the picture for a second—attending 5-star QB Keelon Russell’s sister’s funeral—Nick Saban was reportedly still in Tuscaloosa, helping work behind the scenes on recruiting weekend. That’s right: Coach Emeritus still pulling strings in-house. On June 22nd, Alabama insider hopped onto ON3 podcast, and laid it out: “Kalen DeBoer wasn’t on campus on Saturday. He was in Mississippi for Keelon Russell’s sister’s funeral. So, you know, having Coach Nick Saban over there on Saturday—I don’t know if it was because Kalen DeBoer wasn’t there, but being there when Coach DeBoer wasn’t there was certainly a big plus for Alabama.”
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