Alabama’s latest injury report for Saturday’s trip to Tennessee includes several familiar names, with three starters highlighted as the Crimson Tide prepare for a 2:30 p.m. CT kickoff in Knoxville.
The Southeastern Conference’s mandatory availability reports, introduced in 2024 for conference games in football, basketball and baseball, will again track who is in, who is limited and who is out ahead of No. 6 Alabama’s fifth SEC game of the 2026 season against No.
14 Tennessee on Oct. 17.
Wide receiver Coleman-Williams is the biggest question mark after leaving last Saturday’s loss to Georgia with a knee injury shortly before halftime. He returned to begin the second half, but later took a shot to the head and needed help getting off the field.
Kalen DeBoer said Monday there was a "pretty good chance" Coleman-Williams would not be available against Tennessee because of the knee and head issues, and the coach added Wednesday on Hey Coach that he doesn’t expect him to play. DeBoer also said, "He was trying to get to probably the bye week, just with some other things that he had to work through that probably would've limited him this week anyway."
Center Racin Delgatty also came out of the Georgia game banged up, and DeBoer described him as day-to-day while saying he would keep being evaluated. Alabama is hopeful Delgatty can be ready by Saturday. He has started all six games at center this season after transferring from Cal Poly, but if he cannot go, Mal Waldrep would step in.
Terrance Green’s situation also bears watching. The nose tackle limped off late in the first half against Georgia and did not return, and Alabama’s defense felt it in the second half as the Bulldogs ran effectively. Green re-aggravated an injury from the previous week and has been limited in practice.
Two edge rushers, Justin Hill and Desmond Umeozulu, have already missed the Tide’s last three games. Hill is dealing with a lower-extremity injury, while Umeozulu has turf toe.
Both are listed on the availability report, with DeBoer saying on Oct. 5 that Umeozulu would need "probably a couple more weeks," and Hill would "be back this season, but more than likely not this week." Hill, though, is probable on the initial report.
Freshman defensive back Nick Sherman, a JUCO addition, also remains sidelined after hurting himself during a fall scrimmage and will have to wait for his debut.
Jeremiah Beaman and Cayden Jones are also on the report, but both are done for the 2026 season. Beaman tore his ACL in practice about two weeks before the opener, and it was the second straight year he suffered that injury after tearing his ACL in Week 1 of the 2025 season. DeBoer announced Jones’ season-ending situation on Sept. 21 but did not reveal the junior’s diagnosis.
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