2025 Preseason All-SEC Linebacker Predictions

A popular offseason topic to have as we wait for college football teams to open their summer practices is which school is “[Position]” University.

Basically, it’s an unanswerable question to spark debate and fill story quotas. One thing that is certain in those debates is that whoever gets the tag “Linebacker University” is an SEC school. Really, its between Alabama and Georgia, but the nation’s best linebackers can usually be found in the SEC.

Look at it this way, of the nine linebackers to be named to an All-SEC team after last season, four are returning in 2025. The other five were all drafted in April’s NFL Draft and the list of the NFL’s best linebackers who is full of SEC alumni.

So, who’s in the next batch of great SEC linebackers. The preseason All-SEC teams that will come out in next month’s SEC Media Days, will be a good indicator.

There are some obvious inclusions. Anthony Hill Jr. (Texas) and Whit Weeks (LSU) are the two linebackers that should be unanimous first-team selections. And, of course, there’ll be at least one Alabama linebacker named to a team.

Here’s our prediction for what those preseason All-SEC teams will look like:

Preseason First-Team All-SEC Linebackers