Even with the Coronavirus pandemic, this is a huge season for Alabama football.
Along with players trying to push the program to a national championship, the senior class looks to improve its value for the 2021 NFL Draft.
On Thursday, the Reese’s Senior Bowl committee released its Top 250 players it will watch in the fall. This is a list of candidates on the radar of the Senior Bowl personnel, as it annually serves as the first step of the draft process.
For the Crimson Tide, eight seniors landed on the Top 250 list.
Alabama players on Reese’s Senior Bowl Top 250
-Deonte Brown, OL
-Landon Dickerson, OL
-Miller Forristall, TE
-Najee Harris, RB
-Alex Leatherwood, OT
-Brian Robinson Jr., RB
-Devonta Smith, WR
-Carl Tucker, TE
The Reese’s Senior Bowl, which is annually played at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Ala., has had a total of 93 players drafted in the last two years — including 40 players selected in the first three rounds. It had 10 players taken in the first round of the 2019 NFL Draft, and the 93 players overall represents nearly 40 percent of the total draft these past two years.
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Over 900 credentialed NFL personnel was in Mobile for game week in 2019.
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Stephen M. Smith is the managing editor and senior writer for Touchdown Alabama Magazine. You can “like” him on Facebook or “follow” him on Twitter, via @CoachingMSmith.
