Since 2008, when Nick Saban was coming off his first season with the University of Alabama football team and the Crimson Tide didn’t have a player picked in the National Football League’s annual draft, the program has had 55 selections.
That’s more than an entire NFL team in the fall, when the roster limit is just 53
Of them, 18 players went in the first round and 12 in the second, including five last weekend. If the rosters hold, just five teams won’t have at least one former Crimson Tide player participating in training camp, the Bears, Broncos, Browns, Buccaneers and Steelers.