Click here for linkDont’a Hightower doesn’t slosh anymore.
Last year, when he’d meet the media after practices, Alabama’s linebacker would have both knees heavily iced and wrapped. When he stepped among reporters to be interviewed, it sounded like the bottom of a near-empty cooler after an afternoon at the Talladega speedway
No more. Teammates, even head coach Nick Saban, said the junior has looked like “the old Dont’a” throughout training camp. His explosiveness and quickness are back. And the extra pounds he played with for much of last season are gone.
Very, very good news.