Alabama native Quinshon Judkins was the SEC's 2022 freshman of the year, a two-time 1st team all-conference selection, Ole Miss record-holder for rushing yards and touchdowns in a season.
He's pictured above with current teammate and Georgia native Caleb Downs, the SEC's 2023 freshman of the year and 1st team all-conference selection. They faced each other in Tuscaloosa last season for a game which counted (Bama won) and then again in Columbus earlier this month for one that didn't (Scarlet won).
This sequence would have been impossible to conceive a decade ago - it didn't even take a decade for the myth of amateurism to dissolve into unregulated free agency.