Courtesy of Joshua McMillon, here’s something you very rarely see at Alabama: a player taking advantage of a sixth season. Possibly.
In August of this year, McMillon suffered a knee injury that ultimately sidelined the linebacker for all of 2019. Fast-forward four months, and the fifth-year senior revealed he’s been granted a sixth season of eligibility.
McMillon’s announcement came on the same day he received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the university.
Left unsaid in the social-media post is whether McMillon will actually use that sixth season.
McMillon was a four-star 2015 signee who spent his first four seasons in Tuscaloosa as a backup linebacker and special-teams contributor. The Tennessee native didn’t play at all his first two seasons before seeing action in 18 combined the past two years, with none of those appearances being starts.
With Mack Wilson‘s early departure for the NFL, however, McMillon had been penciled in as a starter prior to the injury.
