Alabama’s 2023 season ended with a loss to Michigan in the Rose Bowl. Now, the Crimson Tide have added a key player from that Wolverine team that beat them.
Michigan safety Keon Sabb, who entered the NCAA transfer portal last week, is enrolled at Alabama and “set to join” the football program, according to Aaron Suttles, the director of content for Yea Alabama, the Crimson Tide NIL collective.
Alabama beat out more than a dozen other programs for Sabb, who appeared in 14 games with five starts in 2023 and finished the year with 28 total tackles. A season-high six of those stops came in the College Football Playoff National Championship win over Washington.
Sabb also broke up a pair of passes against the Huskies. The 6-foot-1, 208-pound defender logged five tackles apiece against East Carolina and Nebraska and picked off passes against Minnesota and Indiana.
A four-star recruit in the 2022 class out of New Jersey by way of IMG Academy in Florida, Sabb appeared in four games as a freshman but did not record any stats. He will have three years of eligibility remaining at Alabama.
The Crimson Tide were able to utilize a previous connection to land Sabb. Courtney Morgan, who recruited Sabb to Michigan as the program’s then director of player personnel, spent last season at Washington before following head coach Kalen DeBoer to Tuscaloosa.
Sabb was projected to play a major role on the Michigan defense in 2024 but elected to look elsewhere when Jim Harbaugh left for the NFL.