Not in dispute meaning what Nick Saban unquestionably does better than any other college football coach – ever. Saban identifies top recruits and develops NFL first-round football players with more success than any coach in college football history.
The number of Nick Saban players to be drafted as first-rounders by the NFL is 34. Five of those players came from Nick Saban programs at Michigan State and LSU. A whopping 29 have come out of Saban’s Alabama football factory in Tuscaloosa. And the end is not in sight.
Conservatively, four, five, maybe even six former Alabama football players will be first-round picks in the 2020 NFL Draft.