American Football Talk II

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The highest ranked player to sign with Alabama is not actually Julio Jones... Cyrus Kouandjio holds that record coming in at #2 overall in his class.

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Alternatively, (aside from the players assigned "no rating"), former tight end Brad Smelley was the lowest rated player in the Saban-era. He was the 943rd overall player, and the 46th best QUARTERBACK.

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Excluding the 2014 and 2015 classes, 5 five-star players have never actually started a game for the Crimson Tide: Phillip Sims, B.J. Scott, Robert Foster, Eddie Williams, and Tyler Love.

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Auburn has signed at least 34 new cows in that span of time.

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The most common name for an Alabama signee is Brandon. The Brandon Posse consists of Moore, Kennedy, Lewis, Greene, Ivory, and Hill. All of the Brandons are offensive or defensive lineman.

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More 5-star offensive tackles (4) have signed with the Tide than 4-stars (3)

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The fastest recorded 40-yard dash was Tony Brown, who ran a 4.35.

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Conversely, Alphonse Taylor has the slowest recorded 40 time with a blazing 5.84 second dash.

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Alabama has signed the top player in the nation at every position except for safety and defensive tackle.

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2011 Safety Jabriel Washington is the lightest player to ever sign, checking in at a whopping 165 pounds.

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As you'd expect, Terrence Cody was the heaviest, at 395 pounds.

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For all of its accomplishments, the 2008 class had TWO five star players to never contribute to the team, B.J. Scott and Tyler Love.

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Recruits tend to find the smell of corndogs turns them away from LSU

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The 2014 class had the highest average ranking of players, while the 2009 class was the lowest.

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The average Alabama football player is 6' 2½".

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Alabama's 2013 and 2015 classes hold the tie for the most five star players in a single class with 6 each.

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The fastest non-skill position player to sign with Alabama is 2015 linebacker Adonis Thomas, who ran a 4.47 forty yard-dash

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The only cornerback from the 2011 class, Bradley Sylve, was recruited to be a receiver. Oddly enough, that was widely considered to be the main position of weakness on the 2014 Alabama team.

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At 6'7", Cyrus Kouandjio and Brian Vogler were the two tallest Alabama players.

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23% of all the 5-stars signed by Nick Saban have been cornerbacks.

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The average Alabama player is really good at football.

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In his tenure, Nick Saban has signed the number one kicker, number one punter, and number one long snapper in the nation. The punter, Jay Williams, was beat out by a walk-on Cody Mandell.

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The average Alabama football player weighs 239 pounds.

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Only 35% of Nick Saban's recruits have come from the state of Alabama. However, 39% of his five star players are from AL.

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The 2013, 2014, and 2015 classes are the three highest raked classes of Saban's tenure. And none of these players are currently older than a true junior.

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Nick Saban has signed the top offensive tackle in the nation three times in 8 years.

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Eddie Lacy ran a faster forty yard dash in high school than Julio Jones did.

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At 226 pounds per athlete, the 2011 and 2013 classes were the two lightest classes, while the 2014 class was the heaviest at 251.

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The 2014 class holds the record for the hardest-to-spell pair of names in J.C. Hassenauer and Ross Pierschbacher.

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Ha Ha. Clinton-Dix (I'm really funny, guys)

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The 2015 class has more five star players than three star players.

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Phillip Ely is actually the fastest quarterback to have signed with Alabama. He ran a 4.57 forty time.

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D.J. Fluker was a five star defensive lineman before switching to offense, and A'Shawn Robinson was a five star offensive lineman before switching to defense.

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Players from 29 of the 50 States have come to play for Alabama. The states represented are AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, DC, FL, GA, IA, KS, KY, LA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, and WV.