Bama in the NFL: All-Time Crimson Tide Draft Selections

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The 2025 NFL Draft will be the first in nearly 20 years that will not include a Nick Saban. Granted, he recruited and coached the players who will be selected out of Alabama, but he wasn't the head coach during the 2024 season, so for accounting purposes they all go under Kalen DeBoer because you have to draw the line somewhere.

Here's an abbreviated version of what kind of difference Saban made at Alabama in terms of the draft.

• After his first season, the Crimson Tide didn't have any players selected in the draft for the first time since 1970.

• Alabama hadn't had a first-round selection since Chris Samuels and Shaun Alexander in 2000.

• It hadn't had more than five players selected in a draft since 1994, since the Gene Stallings era.

Overall, during the Saban era, Alabama had 133 total picks (not including the players who were taken a year or two later), of which 47 were first-round selections, for a whopping 35.3 percent. It was nearly twice as many as the next closest school. The 16 consecutive years with a first-round pick set a draft record.

Collectively, through the 2023-24 NFL season Saban’s Crimson Tide teams produced 14 first-team All-Pro selections and 12 Super Bowl champions. Financially, 165 total players had received some sort of league compensation over the years for a total of $2.26 billion, with 17 having topped $50 million in earnings.

That figure was set to grow significantly as it reflected money already earned, which didn’t include future guaranteed amounts. Also, during the offseason prior to the 2024 season numerous players signed large contracts —including quarterbacks Tua Tagovailoa and Jalen Hurts, offensive lineman Landon Dickerson, running back Josh Jacobs, and wide receivers Jaylen Waddle, Calvin Ridley, Jerry Jeudy and Devonta Smith — which combined exceeded $700 million in guaranteed money.

Combined with his first-round selections at other schools (and not including players he coaches and recruited who were first-round picks in subsequent years), Saban’s 52 tops all coaches in college football history. It’s nearly 20 more than the person in second place, Joe Paterno (33).

See Also: How Many Billions Have Nick Saban's Crimson Tide Players Made in the NFL?

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