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Alabama Football All-Time Team: The Two Best At Each Position

By Casey Sperrazza

Sep 26, 2015; Tuscaloosa, AL, USA; Alabama Crimson Tide fans prior to the game against Louisiana Monroe Warhawks at Bryant-Denny Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Marvin Gentry-USA TODAY Sports
Sep 26, 2015; Tuscaloosa, AL, USA; Alabama Crimson Tide fans prior to the game against Louisiana Monroe Warhawks at Bryant-Denny Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Marvin Gentry-USA TODAY Sports /
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MIAMI GARDENS, FL – JANUARY 07: AJ McCarron #10 of the Alabama Crimson Tide lines up under his center Barrett Jones #75 against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish during the 2013 Discover BCS National Championship game at Sun Life Stadium on January 7, 2013 in Miami Gardens, Florida. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images) /

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Barrett Jones

Barrett Jones is one of the most versatile linemen to ever play the college game. As a redshirt freshman in 2009, he played right guard on Alabama’s undefeated national championship team and earned freshman all-American honors.

In 2011, Jones started all 13 of Alabama’s games at left tackle. He won the Outland Trophy, was a first-team all-SEC selection, and was a unanimous all-American.

As a senior, Barrett Jones moved to center. He won the Rimington Trophy, joining Minnesota’s Greg Eslinger as the only player to win both the Rimington and the Outland Trophies. He was again named an all-American. He was also an academic all-American and the 2012 winner of the Campbell trophy, an award given to the player with the most outstanding record of service, academics, and football.

Jones is on this team as a center because that is the position he has played in the NFL, but he’d be a great guy to put at any spot on this offensive line.

Dwight Stephenson

Dwight Stephenson was recruited out of Murfreesboro, North Carolina to play for Bear Bryant’s Crimson Tide teams in the late 1970s. He anchored the lines on the 1978 and 1979 national championship teams.

He won the Jacobs trophy in 1979, given to the SEC’s best blocker. He was an all-American that year as well as the recipient of the Birmingham Quarterback Club’s Outstanding Lineman Award.

Stephenson was drafted by the Miami Dolphins, where he played from 1980-1987. He was the anchor of a line that gave up the fewest sacks in the league for an unprecedented six consecutive seasons. He was a five-time pro-bowl selection.

In 2010, he was named the recipient of the President Gerald R. Ford Leaders Award.

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