It's the Alabama football positional competition that nobody is talking about.

Push Jalen-Tua aside for a minute. We're talking about Joseph-Austin for a moment here.

The battle to replace Andy Pappanastos as the Crimson Tide kicker is moving into Saturday's second scrimmage without much resolution. Redshirt freshman Joseph Bulovas and Temple transfer Austin Jones are the two involved in this one.

"We've got really good competition in the kicking game, which I think is very good," Nick Saban said. "Both guys have done very, very well. It's a very close competition. I think the combination of those two guys can be very effective for us in some way, shape or form. We haven't decided that yet."

Before Jones arrived this summer, Bulovas was the only kicker getting time on A-Day in April. The Louisiana product was busy with seven field goal attempts with five makes. The two misses were from 43 and 46 yards with a successful 49-yarder thrown in.

At Temple, Jones went 50 for 67 kicking field goals before a torn ACL limited his 2017 season. His best season saw him go 23-for-28 in 2015 with a long of 41.

The other specialist job requiring a strong leg is Skyler DeLong's by acclamation. The true freshman is Alabama's lone scholarship punter stepping in after JK Scott graduated and was drafted by the Green Bay Packers.

"Skyler has been more consistent but that's also a challenge for him to continue and get more and more consistency," Saban said. "When he hits the ball, he hits it fantastic. Most of it with most punters, it's confidence in the drop, and that's what we're really working on with him. But his operation time and all that has been really, really good. We've just got to get him a little more consistent in direction kicking and putting the ball where we'd like for it to be."

DeLong punted 10 times on A-Day for a 39.4-yard average with a long of 46.

Michael Casagrande is an Alabama beat writer for the Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @ByCasagrande or on Facebook.