Alabama defensive back commit Malachi Moore camped in Tuscaloosa earlier this month, further impressing the Crimson Tide staff.

The Hewitt-Trussville (Ala.) product is looking to build upon a junior season that saw him land on the Class 7A First Team All-State list.

The four-star corner committed to the Tide last summer, and while he was still fielding interest from other programs, his recruitment could soon potentially come to a close.

“It’s been going good. Some schools still are trying to come after me like LSU, Florida and Georgia,” Moore told BamaOnLine of his recruitment. “But really after I had a talk with Coach (Nick) Saban last week, I’m thinking about not even taking any other officials, just taking my only official to Alabama in December. I’m 100 percent locked in.”

Even though there’s never been any question as to where Moore’s commitment stood, his talk with the UA head coach had him thinking.

“Well I asked him what he thought about me taking officials to other schools and he said, ‘We have a motto here that if you look like you’re shopping, then we’re going to have to shop. And if you really want to be somewhere, and you know you’re not going to go anywhere else, then you’re really just wasting other peoples’ time.’ That kind of stuck with me. It makes sense.”

Another big factor in Moore’s decision to roll with the Tide is Alabama cornerbacks coach Karl Scott, who took over Hewitt-Trussville in his area after Brent Key left for Georgia Tech.

“It’s great,” Moore said of his relationship with Scott. “It’s been growing every day I talk to him. I can talk to him about anything, not just football. Really when I go up there I don’t even talk to him about football, for real. He’s almost like a big brother to me in some sense.”

Moore has plenty on his plate this summer with The Opening Finals coming up. He’s also working on helping keep the Tide’s recruiting hot streak going.

“I think it’s great,” he said of his thoughts on the state of the 2020 class. “I think it’s great that we’re going to come in and we’re going to work hard. I think we still got a chance to get a lot more people to come. Like Kendall (Milton), I’m going to be down there with him when he takes his official for the cookout.”

Moore added that four-star cornerback Henry Gray out of Miami is another guy he’s working on.

At 6-foot, 180 pounds, Moore is rated the No. 8 cornerback and the No. 134 overall player in the country, per the industry-generated 247Sports Composite Rankings.