QB Sayin commits to Alabama's 'NFL offense'

Quarterback Julian Sayin committed to Alabama connected Wednesday.

Sayin, No. 34 wide successful the 2024 ESPN 300 and the second-best dual-threat backmost successful the inferior class, attends Carlsbad (California) High School.

"Alabama's the modular for assemblage football," Sayin told ESPN. "They're going to manager you hard. You're going to beryllium disciplined there. And that's thing I'm looking for. And I privation to beryllium successful a strategy wherever it's going to construe to the NFL. I'm getting coached hard and I privation the champion portion retired of me.

"It's a batch similar what Bryce [Young] is doing. It's an NFL discourtesy and they're going to marque a batch of projection changes. You're going to beryllium successful power and that's thing that I deliberation I thrive in. I privation to beryllium a portion of that."

He chose the Crimson Tide implicit Georgia and LSU.

Sayin becomes the 4th subordinate of Alabama's 2024 class, the second-highest subordinate of the people (cornerback Jaylen Mbakwe, No. 4 overall) and the archetypal backmost of the class.

For 2023, Nick Saban has commitments from a brace of ESPN 300 quarterbacks, Eli Holstein (No. 22) and Dylan Lonergan (No. 26), successful a azygous people for the archetypal clip since 2019.

Sayin took an unofficial sojourn to Tuscaloosa connected Oct. 22 for Alabama's 30-6 triumph implicit Mississippi State.

"I talked a batch with Coach [Bill] O'Brien, Coach Saban there," helium said. "It gave maine a large feeling, conscionable benignant of what they were saying astir however this is the spot to travel play quarterback."

In 10 games for Carlsbad High School, the 6-foot-2, 190-pound Sayin has completed 69% percent of his passes, accumulated 2,436 full yards with 25 full touchdowns.

He has thrown for 2,302 yards with 23 touchdowns and has been intercepted lone 3 times.

"I would accidental I'm a truly close quarterback," helium said. "I person a batch of acquisition with football. My member [Aidan], he's the starter astatine Penn and I'm conscionable learning a batch from him. I started arsenic a sophomore. Football IQ is beauteous precocious and precise accurate. I tin marque plays connected the run, too."