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The All-Saban team: The best football players Nick Saban has ever coached

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Editor's note: A version of this story originally ran Jan. 14, 2021. It has been updated and republished after the news that Nick Saban will retire.

When you have coached as long as Nick Saban (28 seasons as a head coach), won as many games (292), national championships (7) and conference titles (12), and pumped as many dudes into the NFL draft (49 first-rounders and counting), then guess what? You get your own all-star team!

After Saban won his record seventh national title in January 2021, we pored over stats, scrolling through film and pestering sports information directors to determine the greatest college football player at each position to have spent time playing for and being yelled at by St.