A little while back on this here website, I wrote about how elite wide receivers have become the key to winning a national title in this new era of college football. We saw this play out in real time in this past season’s College Football Playoff, where the two teams to meet in the national title game also just so happened to have two of the top wide receiver rooms in the country. Ultimately, the team with the Heisman Trophy-winning soon-to-be Top-10 NFL Draft pick came away victorious.
Nobody understands the current state of the game better than Nick Saban, as we have seen his style of offense adapt from the ground-and-pound attack led by Derrick Henry not too long ago to the air-raid vertical passing attack led this past season by DeVonta Smith.