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(12-28-2023, 12:20 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Alabama OL just don't seem to work out, I am out on them. Obviously PFF aren't be-all-end-all, but I am just doing a fast-and-loose generalization....

2023 3rd, Tyler Steen: 53.2 (Backup)
2022 1st, Evan Neal: 39.8
2021 1st, Alex Leatherwood: --.- (Practice Squad)
2021 2nd, Landon Dickerson: 69.2 
2021 6th, Deonte Brown: --.- (Practice Squad)
2020 1st, Jedrick Willis: 54.0
2019 1st, Jonah Williams: 59.7
2019 5th, Ross Pierschbacher: --.- (Free Agent)

...that's the last 5 years of Alabama OL who have been drafted. Dickerson would be a solid get, but that's 4 guys taken in the 1st round who have not lived up to billing. 

Alabama OL are still going to be top targets because they are some of the best recruits on a top program. Just looking ahead next year they will have 6'5 350lb LG Tyler Booker and the top OL recruit in the country playing LT Freshman Kadyn Procter (6'7 360lbs just turned 18 years old...).

The same thing happens at other programs like Ohio State, Georgia, Wisconsin, Oregon, Oklahoma, Michigan pretty much all the schools that recruit the top OL. Penn State seems to recruit crazy athletes they have Edge defenders every other year including two for the 2024 draft.