{"id":315115,"date":"2023-07-10T16:47:33","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T16:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=315115"},"modified":"2023-07-10T16:57:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T16:57:51","slug":"zabien-brown-commitment-helps-put-alabama-in-top-15-nationally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=315115","title":{"rendered":"Zabien Brown commitment helps put Alabama in top 15 nationally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Alabama won last year&#8217;s recruiting cycle, putting together\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Season\/2023-Football\/CompositeTeamRankings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">the highest-ranked group of prospects<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0in the nation. However, this year the Tide has been lagging behind a little bit compared to how high they usually finish. Heading into this past week, they weren&#8217;t even in the top 20 of the 247Sports composite 2024 recruiting team rankings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This cycle is far from over, though and Nick Saban&#8217;s squad is beginning to catch up with the usual contenders. They got an especially big boost on Sunday night when\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/rolltidewire.usatoday.com\/lists\/alabama-football-recruiting-2024-cb-zabien-brown-commits-to-alabama-over-usc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Alabama got a commitment<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0from Mater Dei (Calif.) four-star cornerback Zabien Brown.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">committed<img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/1f4aa-1f3fd.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\udffd\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/><img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/1f4c8.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\udcc8\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ACjhkg30R3\">pic.twitter.com\/ACjhkg30R3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Zabien Brown (@zabien_brown) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zabien_brown\/status\/1678212325520621574?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 10, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Brown (6-foot-0, 180 pounds) reportedly had <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Recruitment\/Zabien-Brown-147024\/RecruitInterests\/\">offers from 18 other schools<\/a>. Among the other programs that were considered contenders for his commitment were Ohio State and USC.<\/p>\n<p>According to 247Sports, Brown is <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Season\/2024-Football\/RecruitRankings\/?InstitutionGroup=HighSchool&amp;Position=CB\">the fifth-best cornerback<\/a> in his class, ranks No. 4 overall in the state of California and No. 45 nationally.<\/p>\n<p>Asked why he picked Alabama, Brown credited his relationship with the coaches, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/alabama-crimson-tide\/news\/four-star-cb-zabien-brown-commits-to-alabama\/\">per Hayes Fawcett at On3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just felt like there was a unique opportunity being presented and I really felt at home out there&#8230; I grew a great relationship with coach T-Rob, coach Wiggins, and coach Sam Petitio&#8230; Also had great talks with coach Saban and my family and reminded me a lot of coach Rollo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Crimson Tide also got a commitment from three-star German linebacker Justin Okoronkwo.<\/p>\n<p>Alabama is <a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/lists\/2024-national-recruiting-rankings-updated-top-25-teams\">now No. 14 in the nation<\/a> in our updated national recruiting rankings for the 2024 cycle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More football stories<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/lists\/football-recruiting-rankings-top-quarterback-recruits-class-of-2024\">HS Football Watchlist: The top 10 QBs in the class of 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/lists\/12-most-unbelievable-wide-receiver-performances-in-hs-football-history\">12 most-unbelievable WR performances in HS football history<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>This cycle is far from over, though and Nick Saban&#8217;s squad is beginning to catch up with the usual contenders.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315117,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315115\/revisions\/315117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}