Football factory that it is, Alabama rightly sends a considerable number of former football players to the NFL. And meet grinder that it is, the NFL often chews a considerable number of those players up before they even see the playing field. And Nick Saban has an offer for those alumni: come back and practice with us.
In what at the time sounded like an off-handed remark, Gary Danielson mentioned during Saturday’s Alabama-LSU broadcast that the Tide had deployed former quarterback John Parker Wilson and former running back Trent Richardson in practice sessions to prepare for Danny Etling and Leonard Fournette, respectively.