Alabama football’s Tyler Booker destroys kids at video game: ‘Super locked in’

The night before leaving for SEC Media Days in Dallas, Alabama football offensive guard Tyler Booker had a mission. He stopped by the Crimson Tide’s facility to play the new EA Sports College Football 25 video game with children from the Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.

Booker got the controller in his hand and proceeded to do damage to the kids in attendance.

“I beat both of the kids I played by 30,” Booker said, drawing a chorus of laughter from assembled reporters. “Super locked in.”

Booker’s destruction of the local youth brought to mind former Ohio State quarterback Cardale Jones, who famously destroyed a hospitalized child at the NCAA Football game. After a initial report that he had won the game 91-35, Jones took to the artist formerly known as Twitter to set the record straight.

The final damage had been even worse.

“I wish everyone stop saying I beat a kid in the hospital 91-35,” Jones said in a 2015 post. “It was 98-35, had 91 with 1:26 left in the 4th.”

Booker said he’d been enjoying the game, released Monday in early access before a full release comes Friday, beyond just raining down hellfire on elementary schoolers. He said he’d begin by playing with Alabama but would likely start a dynasty with UConn.

The junior originally hails from Connecticut.

“Play with my boy Victor Rosa,” Booker said of the Husky running back. “He’s out there balling. Shoutout to him.”

Booker is rated as a 91 overall in the game. It’s a good rating, one that put him among the top 100 players in the title.

Still, he wasn’t satisfied.

“I’m not pleased with it,” Booker said. “I feel like I’m the best player in college football so obviously it should have been a 99, but it’s up to me to go prove that through this year.”