After a disappointing opening to the 2025 season, national championship-winning quarterback AJ McCarron believes that the Alabama Crimson Tide's lack of name, image and likeness (NIL) funds is holding his former team back.

According to McCarron, the Tide, which have lost five of their past nine games against FBS opponents under second-year head coach Kalen DeBoer, are way behind other teams in the NIL department. He said on "McCready & Siskey" that Alabama had less than $20 million in its NIL while others were operating with $40-50 million.

"[A]nother thing that hurts Alabama right now is you look at these other teams that have $40-50 million in NIL," McCarron explained. "Alabama — and I know this for a fact, talking to multiple people inside the program — Alabama has got less than $20 m

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