{"id":350759,"date":"2025-11-02T17:15:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T17:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/350759\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T17:15:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T17:15:18","slug":"alabama-investigating-alleged-incident-involving-kirkpatrick-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/350759\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Investigating Alleged Incident Involving Kirkpatrick Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have received reports of an alleged incident over the bye weekend involving Alabama safety Dre Kirkpatrick Jr.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/attachment-900.jpg\" alt=\"Tide 100.9 logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The University of Alabama has\u00a0declined to provide specifics about the incident, but confirmed that an investigation is underway. The university has released\u00a0a statement on Kirkpatrick: &#8220;<strong>We are aware of an incident involving Dre Kirkpatrick Jr. and are working to gather more information<\/strong>,&#8221; the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kirkpatrick, a 5-foot-11, 202-pound safety,\u00a0was a three-star defensive back prospect in the state of Alabama, who signed with Kalen DeBoer and the Alabama Crimson Tide as a member of the Tide&#8217;s 2024 recruiting class. He committed to the University of Alabama in August 2023, and he is the son of former Alabama and Cincinnati Bengals safety Dre Kirkpatrick.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kirkpatrick Jr. has appeared in eight games for Alabama in the 2025 season, totaling nine tackles. He also has a tackle for loss and one forced fumble on the season, with both coming in Alabama&#8217;s 73-0 win over ULM. On Alabama&#8217;s depth chart, he&#8217;s listed as the backup to starter Keon Sabb at strong safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kirkpatrick is still listed on <a href=\"https:\/\/rolltide.com\/sports\/football\/roster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alabama&#8217;s online football roster<\/a> as of Sunday morning. Stay tuned to Tide 100.9 and the Tuscaloosa Thread for more details on this developing situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FultonW_\">Wyatt Fulton<\/a>\u00a0is the Tide 100.9 DME and Brand Manager, primarily covering Alabama Crimson Tide football and men&#8217;s basketball. For more Crimson Tide coverage, follow Wyatt on X (Formerly known as Twitter) at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FultonW_\">@FultonW_<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alabama Survives South Carolina Trap 29-22<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: Wyatt Fulton<\/p>\n<p>Alabama Smokes Tennessee in Bryant-Denny Stadium 37-20<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: Wyatt Fulton<\/p>\n<p>Alabama Survives Road Trip to CoMo with 27-24 Win<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: Wyatt Fulton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We have received reports of an alleged incident over the bye weekend involving Alabama safety Dre Kirkpatrick Jr.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":350760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[12955,26189,135440,7890,135441,1428,1318,135442,135443,1317,1315,1316,135444,2136,9661,62,135445,135446,135447,135448,135449,135450,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-350759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-alabama","9":"tag-alabama-football","10":"tag-alabama-sports","11":"tag-articles","12":"tag-big-noon-sports","13":"tag-college-football","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-inside-the-locker-room","16":"tag-martin-houston-show","17":"tag-ncaa","18":"tag-ncaa-football","19":"tag-ncaafootball","20":"tag-on-air","21":"tag-photos","22":"tag-sec-football","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-t-town-sports-daily","25":"tag-the-game-with-ryan-fowler","26":"tag-the-gary-harris-show","27":"tag-the-millers-edge","28":"tag-tide-tonight","29":"tag-top-25","30":"tag-united-states","31":"tag-unitedstates","32":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115481236768773101","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}