Recruiting has gone national, which means the challenge of signing the best in-state talent is exponentially more difficult than, say, 30 years ago.

With that in mind, we’re building a six-man all-star in-state team of sorts for each program in the SEC, looking for more recent recruits with more options who chose to stay home.

Some SEC schools will have to look back 20, 30 years. Not Alabama. Nick Saban brought in everybody on this list.

Here are the best, by position, Alabama kids who became Crimson Tide standouts.

QB — AJ McCarron

McCarron, who starred at St. Paul’s Episcopal in Mobile, was a four-star recruit and the No. 7-ranked pro-style quarterback in the 2009 class.

He came to Alabama along with Trent Richardson and Eddie Lacy and led the Tide to back-to-back national championships in 2011 and 2012.

In 2012, McCarron threw a school-record 30 touchdown passes against just three interceptions. He left in 2013 with 36 career wins, most in Alabama history.

RB — T.J. Yeldon

Nick Saban gets just about whomever he wants, from wherever he wants. He pulled Derrick Henry and Trent Richardson out of northern Florida, Eddie Lacy out of Louisiana and Mark Ingram out of Michigan, for instance.

Yeldon, a star in Daphne, was in-state, barely, but much closer to Richardson in Pensacola, Fla., than Saban in Tuscaloosa.

Yeldon was a five-star recruit, the No. 2-ranked running back in the 2012 class.

He left early for the NFL ranked No. 4 on Alabama’s career rushing leaderboard with 3,322 yards. He’s now fifth … behind Henry, who passed him this year before also leaving early for the NFL.

WR — Julio Jones

Jones not only is the best in-state receiver the Tide has ever signed, he might outjump Amari Cooper for the right to be called the best receiver from any state the Tide has ever signed.

Jones, who starred at Foley High, just 12 miles from the Gulf of Mexico, was named Alabama’s Mr. Football as a senior. He was a five-star recruit and No. 1-ranked receiver in the 2008 class.

DL — Marcell Dareus

Already a two-time Pro Bowler, Dareus was Saban’s first big run-stuffing signee, a four-star recruit in 2008 out of Birmingham.

Dareus helped the Tide win the 2009 national championship was the No. 3 overall pick in the 2011 NFL Draft — three spots ahead of teammate Julio Jones.

LB — C.J. Mosley/Reggie Ragland

Derrick Thomas (Miami) set the standard for Alabama’s modern-day linebackers and Saban has done his best to find challengers.

He didn’t have to look far to find Mosley or Ragland.

Mosley, a four-star recruit from Mobile who was ranked the No. 3 inside linebacker in the 2010 class. Mosley was a part-time starter on the 2011 championship team and full-time enforcer/All-American when the Tide repeated in 2012.

Ragland, out of Madison, was the No. 1-rated inside linebacker in the 2012 and team leader on the 2015 national championship team.

DB — Mark Barron

Barron arrived at St. Paul’s Episcopal in Mobile before McCarron and left in 2008  as the No. 3-rated safety in the country.

He was a two-time All-American, an enforcer in the secondary who helped Alabama win the 2009 and 2011 national championships.