Alabama football: 6 Crimson Tide players that will be future NFL studs
By John Buhler
Alabama football should have several players taken in the first round of the 2021 NFL Draft.
Few Power 5 teams are dripping with as much NFL talent as Alabama football is in 2020.
The Alabama Crimson Tide are expected to win the SEC this fall, making the College Football Playoff for the sixth time in seven years. Obviously, coaching has been a huge part of the Crimson Tide’s success, but you cannot overstate what it means for this blue-blood program to have more on-field talent than just about anybody they come across. Many players will star on NFL Sundays.
These Alabama football players will be studs in the NFL
Alabama Crimson Tide. 6. player. Scouting Report. Pick Analysis. LB. Dylan Moses. 829
Had this been two years ago, there was no question about how high Alabama linebacker Dylan Moses would have gone in the 2019 NFL Draft. We all knew we were looking at possibly the first defensive player off the board after his sensational sophomore season in 2018. However, a torn ACL ended his junior season in 2019 weeks before it began. Thus, Moses opted to stay in school.
Historically, Alabama has had more than its fair share of stud linebackers. If we are looking at the best examples of this at the NFL level from the Nick Saban era, we probably have to go with C.J. Mosley and Dont’a Hightower. Moses may be more talented than both of them, possibly the most talented like back to play for the Crimson Tide since the late football legend Derrick Thomas.
In his redshirt junior season in 2020, Moses has had his ups and downs. He appears to be fully healthy, but he is not quite the dominant player he was back in 2018. There is some fear Moses may fall victim to Saban getting every last bit of productivity out of him before turning pro. So maybe he is closer to Reggie Ragland than he would be to Hightower or Mosley coming out.
The reasoning behind Moses’ inclusion is he may need another year to get back to what he was in 2018 physically after the torn ACL. He is also an emerging leader of this Alabama defense that is slowly but surely finding its footing. Though he will not go in the top 10 like he would have in 2020 had he not been hurt in 2019, look for Moses to land with a great team somewhere in the 20s.