During head coach Nick Saban’s tenure at Alabama, he’s given the program, especially on the defensive side of the ball, an embarrassment of riches of top-rated recruits who eventually emerge as coveted NFL prospects.
Based on what the program has produced in draft classes of the past, four second-round picks may actually be looked at as a down year in terms of the talent Saban's produced on the defensive side of the ball.
Even though Reggie Ragland, A’Shawn Robinson, Jarran Reed and Cyrus Jones will all contend for starting jobs as rookies and, at least the first three, were near first-round prospects, the Crimson Tide’s best 2015 defender returns for the 2016 season.