College Football: Building a super team position by position
Every year another linebacker walks out of the cloning machine that Nick Saban has built in Tuscaloosa. They’re all six-foot six-inches tall, weigh 260 pounds and proceed to dominate every offensive lineman they come into contact with. Okay, so there might not be any proof of cloning, but its hard to explain the incredible lineage of linebackers that have come out of Alabama during the Saban era.
Nine Crimson Tide linebackers have been drafted since 2012, just under two per year. It’s been star after star and there isn’t an end in sight. If these players chose to play anywhere else they might have gone down as one of the best linebackers in that school’s history, instead they’re members of an elite fraternity.
Rolando McClain, Dont’a Hightower, C.J. Mosley, Reggie Ragland, Ryan Anderson, Reuben Foster, Rashaan Evans. The list goes on and on and on. The Tide have claimed the monopoly on the linebacker position, not just for the SEC, but for the entire nation.