I griped Thursday about the difficulty in naming the SEC’s five best offensive linemen of the last decade. Well, defensive back isn’t any easier.
The conference has turned out 16 first-round NFL draft picks in the last 10 years and seven national award winners. Heck, you could be well on your way to a solid top five using only the SEC’s 2012 draft class -- a year where four of the first 17 picks (LSU’s Morris Claiborne, South Carolina’s Stephon Gilmore and Alabama’s Mark Barron and Dre Kirkpatrick) were defensive backs from the conference.