The Recruiting Trail: Potential 2014 Alabama signees

Alabama currently has a total of 21 (22 as of 10/30 update) verbal commitments in respect to the 2014 signing class, but who are the remaining targets for Nick Saban and the Crimson Tide?

While obviously not limited or reduced to the list below, here are seven prospects Alabama will attempt to reel in as national signing day approaches.

Name: Leonard Fournette
Rating: 5-star prospect (Rivals)
School/City: St. Augustine High School – New Orleans, Louisiana
Position: Running Back
Status: Undecided
List: Alabama, LSU, Miami, USC (among others)

Name: Da’Shawn Hand
Rating: 5-star prospect – No. 1 player in the nation (Rivals)
School/City: Woodbridge High School – Woodbridge, Virginia
Position: Defensive End
Status: Undecided
List: Alabama, Florida, Michigan

Name: Marlon Humphrey
Rating: 5-star prospect (Rivals)
School/City: Hoover High School – Hoover, Alabama
Position: Defensive Back
Status: Undecided
List: Alabama, Florida State, Mississippi State

Name: Matt Elam
Rating: 4-star prospect (Rivals)
School/City: John Hardin High School – Elizabethtown, Kentucky
Position: Defensive Tackle
Status: Undecided
List: Alabama and Kentucky

Name: C.J. Hampton
Rating: 4-star prospect (Rivals)
School/City: Meridian High School – Meridian, Mississippi
Position: Safety
Status: Verbal to Ole Miss
List: Alabama, Auburn, Miami, Ole Miss, Stanford

Name: Laurence “Hootie” Jones
Rating: 4-star prospect (Rivals)
School/City: Neville High School – Monroe, Louisiana
Position: Safety
Status: Undecided
List: Alabama and LSU

Name: Jarran Reed
Rating: 3-star prospect (Rivals)
School/City: East Mississippi Community College – Scooba, Mississippi
Position: Defensive Tackle
Status: Undecided
-Recruited by Alabama for the class of 2013 out of East Mississippi C.C.
-Selected Florida over Alabama - Signed letter of intent to Florida in Feb. 2013
-Failed to meet credit requirements to enroll at Florida
-Returned to East Mississippi C.C.
-Has reopened recruitment
List: Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi State

UPDATE – October 30

The update below "introduces" a total of six prospects that will serve as an extension to the list above.

As is always the case with a recruiting update, the names on this list, and the list above, are not designed to exclude other national prospects that are potentially being pursued by Alabama.

The next "update" in respect to Alabama recruiting 2014, will be presented by mid December.

Name: Andrew Brown
Rating: 5-star prospect (Rivals)
School/City: Oscar Smith High School – Chesapeake, Virginia
Position: Defensive Tackle
Status: Verbal to Virginia
List: Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, Virginia

Name: Tony Brown
Rating: 5-star prospect – No. 1 player in the state of Texas (Rivals)
School/City: Ozen High School – Beaumont, Texas
Position: Defensive Back
Status: Undecided
List: Alabama, Florida State, LSU, Ohio State, Texas

Name: Lorenzo Carter
Rating: 5-star prospect – No. 1 player in the state of Georgia – No. 1 Defensive End in the nation (Rivals)
School/City: Norcross High School – Norcross, Georgia
Position: Defensive End
Status: Undecided
List: Alabama, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, LSU, Notre Dame, Oregon

Name: Jalen Tabor
Rating: 5-star prospect – No. 1 player in Washington, D.C. (Rivals)
School/City: Friendship Collegiate Academy – Washington, D.C.
Position: Defensive Back
Status: Undecided
List: Alabama, Florida, Maryland, Vanderbilt

Name: Davion Hall
Rating: 4-star prospect (Rivals)
School/City: Liberty-Eylau High School – Texarkana, Texas
Position: Safety/Wide Receiver (Athlete)
Status: Verbal to Baylor
List: Alabama, Baylor, Texas A&M

Name: Racean “Roc” Thomas
Rating: 4-star prospect
School/City: Oxford High School – Oxford, Alabama
Position: Running Back
Status: Verbal to Auburn
List: Alabama, Auburn