New Bentley’s. Mid Years getting right. pic.twitter.com/bEnVRVRYsS — Scott Cochran (@CoachYeah) January 15, 2019

Alabama's mid-year enrollees have been arriving on campus over the course of the last nine days (some earlier than that), embarking upon their college careers.

In all, 15-16 first-year Crimson Tide signees are expected on campus this month to get a semester under their belts.

One of the major benefits to enrolling early, outside of practicing with the team in the spring, is getting into the weight room.

We saw a similar number of early enrollees in the 2017 class, and that proved to be of tremendous value looking back upon Alabama's 2017-18 season that culminated with several true freshmen playing critical roles in the Tide's national championship win over Georgia.

Of the Tide's early signing class, UA head coach Nick Saban was pleased:

“We’re really pleased with the signing today,” Alabama head coach Nick Saban said. “We were able to add 22 (24 when it was all said and done) players to the roster. We still have a few more that may come in. We do have some additional numbers that we can take guys, so don’t do your calculations and scare off everybody that we’re recruiting for February because we do have spots left and there are good players out there that we’re very much interested in and are interested in us.

“I think our staff, coaches, did a really good job. A recruiting cycle goes over a long period of time. We built a lot of really good relationships with a lot of really good players. I think we satisfied a lot of needs on our team”