Breaking News: The NFL Offseason Has Seen Former Alabama Key Players Secure the Bag
Nick Saban turned Alabama into the NFL factory. Because he molded the best players out of high school into NFL goods, Saban is the greatest coach of all time. 133 different players, including an incredible 47 first-round draft selections, were selected from Saban’s teams during his 17-year tenure at Alabama. In addition to making athletes more draftable, Saban gave them the qualities necessary to succeed in the league. Players that played for Nick Saban were successful in the NFL, as seen by Julio Jones’s rise to prominence in the early 2010s and D’onta Hightower’s role in Tom Brady’s Super Bowl victories.
The NFL is a business and players earn their right to get paid for their abilities. Because the program pumps such a large amount of players into the league, former Alabama players have raked it in especially during this past offseason.
Former Crimson Tide players have secured contracts worth over $1 billion in the last two months alone. The most recent development occurred this morning when Patrick Surtain II, an Alabama player from 2018 to 2021, signed a four-year, $96 million contract extension to become the highest paid defensive back in the NFL. Surtain made the last statement, but there were many more players that obtained new contracts, including Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa and Ravens running back Derrick Henry. This is just one more thing Alabama head coach Kalen DeBoer and his staff can use on the recruiting road to entice recruits and keep the Crimson Tide on top, even though Nick Saban is no longer the head coach.
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