Malachi Moore explains what makes Terrion Arnold, Kool-Aid McKinstry special at Alabama Pro Day
Alabama has produced hundreds of talented players over the years, the type good enough to go on to long, successful careers in the NFL. Last year’s secondary figures to add a few more.
The Crimson Tide were absolutely loaded in the back end, and a couple of the mainstays in that secondary put their skills on display for NFL scouts on Wednesday in Tuscaloosa at the team’s annual Pro Day.
One younger member of the secondary was there watching, taking it all in. In the not too distant future, Malachi Moore will also be a part of those proceedings. For now, he was content to chime in on two of his teammates who are ready to head to the next level.
First he talked up cornerback Kool-Aid McKinstry, who is getting some love as a potential first-round pick.
“Teammate I don’t really think is the best word for it. I would think it would be more like a brother,” Moore told the SEC Network’s Cole Cubelic. “Somebody that’s always going to be there for you but somebody who’s always going to push you to make you better. On the days that you don’t really feel like doing something he’s always going to push you to bring that greatness up out of you and he’s always there for you cheering you up, but also going to hold you to that standard of being great.”
That kind of attitude can be infectious on a team, and it certainly seemed to be the case with the Alabama secondary last season.
Another of the veterans who was plying his trade on Pro Day was Terrion Arnold. Arnold was elite in every sense of the word at Alabama, proving to be an incredibly disruptive force in the back end.
He’d also let you hear about it afterward.
“Yeah, Terrion one of those guys that he’s going to talk to anybody. That’s just his personality,” Moore said. “We talk all the time, that’s just his personality. He’s an outgoing person but kind of the same traits that Kool had, just a brother really more than a teammate. Same type of standard that we’re going to hold each other to and that we held each other to last year. And it’s great seeing them both out here doing their thing.”
While Arnold was the talker in the group, the whole Alabama secondary could mix it up at times, Moore said.
That should be on display next fall, when Moore becomes one of the veterans in a group that will be breaking in what it hopes is the next line of stars.
“It might be a little bit of both but we always try to play the game the right way and have respect for our opponent, but things do get chippy out there at times,” Moore said.