It’s been quite the busy month for Jalen Milroe.
Alabama’s redshirt sophomore quarterback was the Crimson Tide starter for the first two games of this season, which included the 34-24 home loss to Texas on Sept. 9. Milroe was then benched and didn’t play the following week in a 17-3 downing of South Florida in Tampa, but he was named the starter again last Monday and led the Crimson Tide to a much-needed 24-10 victory over Ole Miss in their Southeastern Conference opener.
Now the challenge for the 6-foot-2, 220-pounder from Katy, Texas, is the first road start of his career Saturday night at Mississippi State. Milroe entered last season’s 49-26 triumph at Arkansas for an injured Bryce Young midway through the second quarter and with the Crimson Tide leading 21-0, but his lone career start before this season was last year’s home game against Texas A&M.
“The biggest thing is to focus on today and try to maximize today and be the best version we can today,” Milroe said Monday in a news conference. “We know we have a tough opponent this week and that it’s going to be a hard road game, but we’re ready to accept the challenge as a team.
“The first thing we’ve got to do is clean up some things we messed up on this last week.”