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Nick Saban announces LB Chris Allen suffered knee injury, out for season
By Keith Farner
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Alabama will be without another linebacker this season, coach Nick Saban announced on Saturday.
Chris Allen, who played in seven games as a freshman last year, had six tackles, two quarterback hurries and a forced fumble. Allen’s loss will hurt Alabama’s depth at that position as he was in line to be a top backup at outside linebacker.
Saban added that the team is already too thin at both linebacker positions to move players around.
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The former 4-star recruit from Baton Rouge, La. is the second player at that position to suffer a season-ending injury following Terrell Lewis’ torn ACL during the summer.
Saban says LB Chris Allen suffered a knee injury that required surgery and he'll be out for the season, also confirmed RT Matt Womack stepped on somebody's foot the other day & broke his foot again, will likely be out 4-6 weeks.
— Alex Byington (@_AlexByington) August 18, 2018
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
