FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida -- Freshman linebackers Dillon Lee and Ryan Anderson have been sent home from BCS national championship preparations for violation of team rules, a source has confirmed.

Alabama coach Nick Saban issued a brief statement.

"We sent two players home due to a curfew violation," Saban said in the statement.

The university would not confirm any names.

The Crimson White student newspaper first identified the two players as Lee, of Buford, Ga., and Anderson, of Daphne.

Anderson has not seen the field this year. Lee, who intercepted a pass in Alabama's season-opening rout of Michigan, has played sparsely.