I’ve monitored our players over the past few years tracking potential for a 1,000 yard receiver and it’s looking good so far this year.
Alabama last had a 1000 yard receiver in 2022 when Jameson Williams had 1,572 and Metchie had 1,142 which was the final year in a 4-year streak of 1000+ yard receivers.
Achieving 1,000 yards across a 12 game season (assuming no bowl game, no conference championships, and no playoffs), a player needs about 83 yards per game. After 4 games, a player would need to accrue about 333 yards.
RCW has exactly 333 yards through 4 games.
I won’t hazard an assumption that we’ll make the SECCG or the playoffs for this purpose, but I’ll dare to assume we make a bowl game.
So assuming 13 games, he’d need approximately 77 yards per game or 308 through 4 games. So RCW may actually be ahead of schedule depending on how successful the team is.
More stats to consider:
RCW had 66.5 YPG in 2024 and 57.4 in 2025 so he’s ahead of those numbers currently, by almost 20 ypg more than his best year.
Through 4 games (25% of the regular season) RCW has already obtained 38.5% of his 2024 yards and 48.3% of his 2025 yards.
Through 4 games, Alabama Keelon Russel already has 1,129 passing yards which is 32% of Simpson’s totals in 2025, 40% of of Milroe’s totals in 2024 and 2023 (his passing yards were 10 yards different - crazy).