Incoming freshman’s weight loss could be Alabama’s gain

Weighing 352 pounds, Timothy Smith played his junior season at Florida’s Sebastian River High School in three-snap increments. The hefty defensive tackle could not manage to keep himself on the field, and despite having received scholarship offers from some of the nation’s top programs, he had to change his body. “We came in during the summer,” his coach Tyrone Perry recalled Tuesday, “And said, …