
Alabama football ‘standing strong’ with Georgia 4-Star OL after Junior Day visit
Bear McWhorter got back to Tuscaloosa for Alabama football’s Junior Day on Saturday.
McWhorter is a 2026 offensive lineman out of Cass High School in Georgia. He garners a four-star rating from multiple recruiting sites, including ESPN.
The Georgia product’s latest visit to Tuscaloosa allowed him to get another look at what the Alabama program provides its athletes.
“I got to meet with Coach Deboer and go through all of the strength stuff and go through a bunch of meetings. It is always a good time with those guys,” McWhorter told Touchdown Alabama. “Also got to see the freshman dorms and then wrapped up at the basketball game.”
Alabama is continuing to trend in a good direction with the junior.
“They’re in really strong standing,” said McWhorter. “I feel great about them at this point in my recruitment.”
At 6-foot-4 and 290 pounds, McWhorter is an agile offensive lineman, who shines at the guard position with his ability to work to the second level and be physical in the trenches in the run game.
The Tide will get McWhorter back on campus in May for an official visit. A visit in the spring is also possible.
How did the state’s players perform in the 2025 Reese’s Senior Bowl?
The American team moved 90 yards in the final 2:32 to win the Reese’s Senior Bowl 22-19 over the National squad with a touchdown as time ran out in Mobile’s 76th annual all-star game.

Players from Alabama high schools and colleges helped get it done on the game-winning drive.
After a false-start penalty moved the Americans to their 10-yard line to start the series, Memphis quarterback Seth Henigan threw on 11 of the next 12 non-penalty snaps. He completed 10 of those passes for 87 yards, getting the final 2 on a fourth-and-goal toss to TCU wide receiver Jack Bech to lift the Americans to victory.
Five of the passes were caught by players with Alabama football roots.
After the opening penalty, Henigan had a 5-yard completion to Alabama tight end CJ Dippre. But it was Dippre’s third-down catch for a 25-yard gain two snaps later that really got the Americans out of the hole and headed toward victory.

Dippre had two targets in the end zone, too. On third-and-goal from the 4, an overthrow of Dippre didn’t count because the Nationals were offsides. On the next snap, Henigan went to Dippre in the end zone again, but the pass was too long for the Memphis QB’s only official incompletion of the series.
Auburn running back Jarquez Hunter had two 9-yard receptions on the game-winning drive. The first went for a first down, and the second put the Americans on the National 4-yard line.

“We just stayed together as a team,” Hunter said. “We stayed the course. I think we executed on that last drive. It was all in one. I feel like everybody, 1-through-11, did their assignment on the ball.”