Ask any NFL player if he thinks Alabama’s football team could beat an NFL team, and he will laugh in your face. The level of physical and mental maturity it takes to succeed in the NFL is overwhelming, and any team in the league would smash Alabama, they’ll say.
But if you ask an Alabama football alum, you’ll get a different response. There’s a consensus among guys who played for Nick Saban that an Alabama team in the Saban era would not only beat an NFL team, but if they played a 16-game season, they would win multiple games.