Alabama Football: Latest Mock Draft for former Tide players

Former Alabama football players will continue the Tide’s decade-long NFL Draft dominance. Check out the latest Mock Draft information for 15 former Tiders.

Over the last 10 NFL Drafts, Alabama football has dominated. From 2008-2017, 65 former Crimson Tide players have been drafted, 22 of them in the first round. How impressive are those numbers? In 2008, no Alabama football players were drafted.

The subsequent nine years of Crimson Tide first-rounders blows away the ten-year records of the next closest teams. Florida and Ohio State had 14 first round selections. USC had 13, LSU 11, FSU and TAMU had nine, followed by Clemson and North Carolina with eight.

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In the upcoming 2018 NFL Draft, four or five former Alabama football players are expected to be drafted in the first round. Four will tie the Alabama team record and five would break it. Somewhere between eight and 15 former Crimson Tiders will be selected in the Draft’s seven rounds. The Crimson Tide record for players in one NFL Draft is 10.

Based on last year’s performance, Charlie Campbell is the best source for Mock Drafts. Also, it is always wise to check the opinions of SI‘s Peter King and the NFL Network‘s Mike Mayock. King and Mayock mostly concentrate on the early rounds. Campbell is currently projecting through Round Five.

Using Campbell and a few other mocks for the later rounds, let’s look at 15 former Tide players in the upcoming NFL Draft.

Alabama football 2018 NFL Draft Projection

First Round

Minkah Fitzpatrick as the 9th pick to the San Francisco 49ers
Da’Ron Payne as the 13th pick to the Washington Redskins
Calvin Ridley as the 16th pick to the Baltimore Ravens
Ronnie Harrison as the 25th pick to the Tennessee Titans
Rashaan Evans as the 27th pick to the New Orleans Saints

Note: There are many mocks that have Harrison going in the second round

Second Round

Da’Shawn Hand as the 51st pick to the Detroit Lions

Note: Some mocks have Averett going in the second round

Third Round

Anthony Averett as the 67th pick to the Indianapolis Colts

Fourth Round

Tony Brown as the 133rd pick to the Green Bay Packers

Fifth Round

Levi Wallace as the 145th pick to the Chicago Bears

Based on other mock drafts: Bo Scarbrough in the 4th round; Brad Bozeman in the 5th round; Shaun Dion Hamilton in the 6th round; Robert Foster and J.K. Scott in the seventh round. Josh Frazier also has a chance to be drafted in the late rounds.

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The first day of the 2018 NFL Draft is April 27th. Minkah Fitzpatrick and Rashaan Evans have been invited to attend the first day of the Draft.

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