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Alabama's Keelon Russell to start at QB against Vanderbilt despite ankle injury

Russell, who has an ankle injury and appeared on the SEC availability report this week, is set to start for Alabama, with Austin Mack as the backup.

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Russell, who has an ankle injury and appeared on the SEC availability report this week, is set to start for Alabama, with Austin Mack as the backup.

Keelon Russell's ankle injury from the LSU game made his status for the Vanderbilt game uncertain, but he played anyway, throwing three touchdowns. Talk about a dramatic last-second decision. The Crimson Tide trusted an injured quarterback to beat Vandy more than a healthy Austin Mack.

Austin Mack was in line to start if Russell was unable to go on Saturday. Despite an injury, Alabama QB Keelon Russell will start once against against Vanderbilt with Austin Mack as the backup.

AL.com Sports reported the story as "How Keelon Russell battled through injury to face Vanderbilt after all."

5 sources have covered this story, including AL.com Sports, Newsweek, FanSided and Yahoo Sports and 1 other outlet. The earliest reporting in the cluster landed about 2 hours ago.

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On3 reported it first, Nov 14, 12:43 PM ET. 5 outlets carried it over 5h 15m, all in the center. Half of them within 1h 40m.All in the United States.

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Time since the first report

  1. FirstOn3Nov 14, 12:43 PM ETCenter
  2. +13mYahoo SportsNov 14, 12:56 PM ETCenter
  3. +1h 40mFanSidedNov 14, 2:23 PM ETCenter
  4. +2h 27mNewsweekNov 14, 3:10 PM ETCenter
  5. +5h 15mAL.com SportsNov 14, 5:58 PM ETCenter

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