At his final press conference before Saturday's season opener against West Virginia, Alabama coach Nick Saban still remained quiet on naming a starting quarterback, but there was still plenty of other things to discuss too.

Here are three quick hits about what we learned:

1) DePriest out for West Virginia game

Saban said this will only be a "one-game deal" and that DePriest will be available to play again next week in the home opener against Florida Atlantic.

DePriest sprained his knee early in fall camp and has been slow trying to work his way back into shape ever since.

"Trey was hurt a significant amount of fall camp, so we played with Reuben [Foster] and Reggie [Ragland] quite a bit," Saban said. "They got a lot of reps because Trey probably missed, I don’t know, eight to 10 practices. It gave us a real opportunity to be able to prepare if the guy who was the signal caller that calls the defenses and all those types of things, gets the signals for the front wasn’t there. Because we needed to train somebody else to do that, and I think that even though this was not something that we anticipated, it’s certainly something we were able to prepare for because of his absence because of his injured knee earlier in camp."

So those two guys will do most of the playing. Dillon Lee and Shaun Dion Hamilton will be the backup guys. We’ll probably be in nickel or dime in this game 70 or 80 percent of the time or more, so there won’t be a whole lot of regular."

2) Kiffin to coach, call plays from the field

First-year offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin will call plays from the sideline this season as opposed to the press box.

"We’re going to put him on the field," Saban said. "I always let the coordinators be where they want to be, but in this case, even though he felt more comfortable being in the press box, I think it’s important that he is on the field. He has the greatest impact and effect on the players."

This is the first time Saban has made an offensive coordinator call plays from the sideline, he said. A reason for that is due to his defensive coordinator days with the Cleveland Browns when current New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick was the head coach. In short, Belichick told Saban that it would be better for his defensive players if he was down on the field, much like Saban is now telling Kiffin with his offensive players.

"He said, ‘You installed it every day, you’re the one that’s the face with the players all the time, you’re the one that they listen to," Saban said. "You got to be on the field, so you can make the adjustments and impact the players during the game.’ So I memorized my stuff. I could not pull the call sheet out and look at it during the game. I had to know what I was going to do on everything, but he was right. I had a much greater impact on the players and making adjustments in the game."

3) Jackson available to play, despite recent torn ACL

Sophomore cornerback Eddie Jackson will be available to play in Saturday's season opener, despite being just short of five months removed from a torn ACL.

Saban said Jackson will make the trip to Atlanta and that he has made a "tremendous amount" of progress over the past seven to 10 days.

"I wouldn't rule out the fact he can play in this game," Saban said. "But I would rather go in to the game thinking we would use him if we needed to rather than pushing him in the game."

Jackson came into the spring thought to be the team's No. 1 cornerback before going down with the knee injury in early April. He had the surgery on April 7 and returned to practice for the start of fall camp at the beginning of August.

According to the depth chart released by Alabama on Monday, Jackson is currently a co-backup with freshman Tony Brown behind junior Cyrus Jones. Bradley Sylve is listed as the other starting cornerback.

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