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Alabama Football: NFL teams struggle with what they cannot see

[Staff Photo/Gary Cosby Jr.] Alabama Vs Western Carolina

Some Alabama Football players may be undervalued in the NFL Draft. With Nick Saban’s Alabama Football factory consistently developing NFL players, how could a former Crimson Tide player not be highly rated? The answer is the difficulty of measuring player intangibles.

The process of evaluating and choosing players for the NFL Draft is not science. Though a massive amount of player data is compiled, the numbers cannot provide a complete profile of a player. All the effort is to find certainty where none exists. Former Alabama Football reporter, Ben Jones recently stated an uncommon opinion.