TUSCALOOSA -- Spring is a time for change. And that’s the philosophy Alabama head coach Nick Saban and his staff live by during the Crimson Tide’s 15 annual practices that make up its spring season.

Evans recorded 10 tackles, four sacks and three QB hurries in 2015.

Several experiments have taken place on the field in just two practices, with players moving from old positions to new ones, and the biggest has been outside linebacker Rashaan Evans’ move to inside linebacker.

The rising junior linebacker spent the first two practices of Alabama’s 2016 spring season working under first-year defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt, and Saban has liked what he’s seen from Evans.

“He’s done a very good job,” Saban said Monday evening in a post-practice press conference. “We recruited him because he had great fast twitch ability to rush on the edge and he did a good job of that last year. We still have every plan to use him at that, but we were looking at where can he develop as an every-down position player the best.

“We do a lot of experimenting in the spring. We want to know who can do what so we know how to put the pieces together in the fall, so we move guys around and play them at different positions and we’ll do a lot of that.”

Evans showed exactly why Saban and company want to send the versatile linebacker on the field as much as possible in 2016 in the College Football Playoff National Championship Game by recording two sacks.

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But even though the former five-star recruit showed he can wreak havoc off the edge against fast-tempo teams like Clemson, he was stuck behind proven pass rushers in Ryan Anderson and Tim Williams.

That’s one of the main reasons for his move to inside linebacker this spring. And according to rising senior Reuben Foster -- who like Evans, also hails from Auburn -- the younger Evans is turning heads this spring.

“I’ve seen greatness in him, like footwork, all that,” Foster said Monday evening. “He brings a lot. For our defense, he moves quick and he can get to the ball much faster, so that’s a win.”

With 13 spring practices left on the schedule, including the A-Day Game on April 16, Evans will compete with Shaun Hamilton, Keith Holcombe, Adonis Thomas and Joshua McMillon -- who is another outside 'backer to move inside -- for first-team reps with Foster. Through two practices, the versatile Evans has lived up to the lofty expectations set for him.

“I’ve been impressed with what he’s been able to do so far,” Saban said of Evans after only two spring practice sessions. “He is naturally instinctive at it, so it’s just going to be a matter of him learning the position and him being a linebacker. I don’t think that’s something that will be overly difficult for him to do.”

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