Jay Lindsey

#88 · TE · Jr. · Alabama6′5″ · 258 lb · Butler, AL · Patrician Academy

Jay Lindsey is a tight end at Alabama who has not played in Alabama's 8 games this season; the last season with a stat line was 2025.

Where Lindsey comes from

  • Butler, ALHometown
  • Patrician AcademyHigh school
  • About 100 miles from Bryant-Denny StadiumDistance
  • Three-star, No. 826 in the 2024 class.Recruiting profile
  • On the Alabama roster since 2024Roster

Where Lindsey fits

The consensus depth chart of May 27 lists Lindsey at TE, No. 1.

Alabama lists 10 tight ends this season.

Alabama tight ends with a game this season

Alabama is 6-2, No. 9 in the AP poll (week 10). Next: at LSU, Sat Nov 7.

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The story

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The story Alabama fans keep circling back to is recognition. Local outlets spent the offseason filing Lindsey under "returning players who deserve more recognition," noting that the average Tide fan has no idea how much the 6-5, 258-pound sophomore actually played in 2025 — all 15 games, on offense and special teams, even if the stat sheet shows just 2 catches for 7 yards.

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The complication is that the room he survived has been rebuilt over the top of him. With Josh Cuevas gone, Alabama brought in Oklahoma State transfer Josh Ford — a 6-6, 267-pound mauler ranked the No. 5 tight end in the portal, slotted as the obvious in-line starter — while Kaleb Edwards, a Freshman All-SEC pick, headlines the receiving end and freshmen like Mack Sutter and Marshall Pritchett push the youth movement. Beat writers framed Lindsey's lane plainly: with Danny Lewis out this spring, he grabbed extra reps and a shot at the backup blocker job behind Ford in Ryan Grubb's offense, likely lining up as a move-fullback and in-line blocker in heavier sets.

That's the forward stake. Lindsey isn't the name fans chant — he's the homegrown grinder whose value is leverage and contact, not targets. The question the boards keep asking heading into 2026: in a tight end room suddenly four deep with talent, can the kid who survived the bare-cupboard spring block his way into real snaps?

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Play style

No play-by-play tracking data on Lindsey yet, so this is a scouting read: he's a 6-5, 258-pound in-line tight end built to set edges and finish blocks, the "nasty" hard-nosed profile he carried as a recruit out of Patrician Academy. His 2025 line — 2 catches, 7 yards, no scores — tells you exactly where his value lives: not as a receiver, but as a willing move-fullback and run-game enforcer who can be trusted across all 15 games. Think tone-setter in heavy personnel, the body who springs the back rather than catches the seam.

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