{"id":432230,"date":"2018-04-06T10:33:35","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T16:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=432230"},"modified":"2018-04-06T10:33:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T16:33:35","slug":"st-pauls-grad-shines-at-alabama-spring-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/st-pauls-grad-shines-at-alabama-spring-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Paul&#8217;s Grad Shines at Alabama Spring Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/casher.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-432231\" src=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/casher.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>By Scott McInnerney<br \/>\nWNSP Reporter<\/p>\n<p>MOBILE, AL \u2013 Mobile native Josh Casher has been the starting left guard for Alabama\u2019s football team throughout this year\u2019s spring practices.<\/p>\n<p>The St. Paul\u2019s graduate sat out the 2014 season and got his first action as a redshirt freshman in 2015. He started seeing more playing time in his sophomore season, playing in five games, and last season, he played in six games.<\/p>\n<p>According to head coach Nick Saban, Casher has overcome his size limitations. The senior offensive lineman is listed at 6-foot-1 and 291 pounds\u2014at least three inches shorter and 20 pounds lighter than the team average\u2014but that hasn\u2019t stopped him from making an impact.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been very thankful for the opportunity,\u201d Chasher told reporters Thursday. \u201cIt\u2019s a process being here at Alabama. Nothing is going to be given to you. You\u2019re going to have to work your butt off, pay attention to detail, and be focused on what\u2019s coming up next.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During his senior year at St. Paul\u2019s, Casher was ranked the No. 9 player in Alabama by Rivals.com and ESPN. Casher helped lead St. Paul\u2019s to its first Class 5A state championship in seven years.<\/p>\n<p>He has also been a part of the two National Championship teams since coming to Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have each other\u2019s back,\u201d said Casher. \u201cWe try to coach each other up so we can form one good, solid unit. We\u2019re in this together, and we\u2019re trying to achieve one goal. We want to be the best players we can be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alabama\u2019s spring game this year is on April 21 at 1 p.m. and the regular season kicks off Sept. 1 when the Tide takes on Louisville in Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>View the interview with Casher by clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/video\/c\/joshua-casher-shows-off-big-personality\/vp-AAvwAeL\">HERE<\/a> or read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.al.com\/alabamafootball\/index.ssf\/2018\/04\/alabama_practice_report_reserv.html\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By Scott McInnerney WNSP Reporter MOBILE, AL \u2013 Mobile native Josh Casher has been the starting left guard for Alabama\u2019s football team throughout this year\u2019s <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/st-pauls-grad-shines-at-alabama-spring-practice\/\" title=\"St. Paul&#8217;s Grad Shines at Alabama Spring Practice\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4489,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,91,147,112,150,176],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-432230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-crimson-tide-bama-tide","7":"category-alabama","8":"category-featured-news","9":"category-hs-football","10":"category-local-sports","11":"category-top"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432232,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432230\/revisions\/432232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}