The Alabama Crimson Tide recently awarded walk-on offensive lineman Graham Roten a scholarship, putting him on scholarship for his redshirt senior season for the Crimson Tide. Alabama partnered with 68 Ventures to create a new scholarship.
Yea Alabama, the Crimson Tide’s NIL collective, announced the news on Friday. 68 Ventures, the company Alabama partnered with to award the scholarship, operates along the Gulf Coast, focusing on development and construction. The company’s founder, Nathan Cox, helped Alabama head coach Kalen DeBoer present the scholarship
“I know this has been on Nathan’s heart here for quite a while,” DeBoer said. “We’ve been talking about this and swapping emails. He’s put a lot into what he wanted in this ‘scholarship,’ we’re going to call it. This 68 Ventures support for one of you walk-ons, including everything that a scholarship player would have – room and board, tuition
