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Losing players to the transfer portal is the norm in today’s age of college athletics, but coaching changes can cause those losses to hit drastic numbers as players look for new beginnings.

For Alabama, legendary head coach Nick Saban’s retirement opened the portal floodgates as player after player chose not to stick around into new head coach Kalen DeBoer’s tenure.

Between the winter and spring portal windows, Alabama had 39 total scholarship and walk-on players transfer out of the program.

But despite those losses, DeBoer and his newly-hired staff brought in 14 transfers to supplement the 2nd-ranked recruiting class in the country as a new crop of talent comes into Tuscaloosa.

To sum up all of the movement, below is a position-by-position breakdown going over what Alabama lost and gained via the transfer portal at each position ahead of the 2024 football season.

The movement in the quarterback room was to be expected.

Holstein and Buchner were both backups, and with Ty Simpson deciding not to enter the portal himself, there wasn’t much room for them on the depth chart.

Perhaps the biggest surprise was the loss of 5-star early enrollee Julian Sayin, who was viewed to be the future at signal-caller in Tuscaloosa.

To replace him, DeBoer brought Austin Mack with him from Washington, a 6-foot-6 redshirt freshman who has the build of an NFL quarterback.

He likely won’t see the field in 2024, but he could be DeBoer’s quarterback of the future.