Editor’s note: SDS is ranking the 25 best SEC players — at any position — of the last decade. Alabama OL Barrett Jones is the fourth member of a 25-part daily series.

22.) ALABAMA OL BARRETT JONES (2008-12)

It’s difficult to sum up Jones’ Alabama career in words. His leadership and precision were “you had to be there” qualities tough to quantify.

But he’ll go down as one of the most accomplished offensive linemen in Alabama history. He won three national championships: in 2009 as a Freshman All-American guard, in 2011 as a consensus All-American left tackle and in 2012 as a consensus All-American center.

He’s also the only offensive lineman ever to win the Outland and Rimington Trophy at two different positions or in two different years.

According to rolltide.com, Jones executed his assignment on 725 of 731 snaps in 2012, or an astounding 99.2 percent. That’s in addition to completing his accounting degree with a 4.0 gpa, taking graduate school classes and getting named the “Academic Heisman” winner.

The No. 1 center recruit in the nation in 2008, he redshirted his first year at Alabama. A freshman right guard on the ’09 championship team, he moved to left tackle in ’11 due to team needs and finally played his most natural position of center in ’12 on one of the best offensive lines in school history.

In addition to BCS championship wins over Texas, LSU and Notre Dame, Jones also helped the Tide whip Michigan State in the 2010 season Citrus Bowl.

Career numbers: Started 50 games at three different positions.

Individual superlatives: 2009 — Freshman All-American; 2011 — Outland Trophy, consensus All-American, first-team All-SEC; 2012 — Rimington Trophy, consensus All-American, first-team All-SEC, William V. Campbell Award, Academic All-America of the Year

NFL Draft: No. 113 overall (fourth round) to the St. Louis Rams in 2013.

Defining moment: Up 42-14 in the 2012 season national championship game midway through the fourth quarter, Jones and QB AJ McCarron were trying to overrule one another on a pre-snap call, forcing McCarron to call timeout.

The game was well out of hand, but McCarron got into Jones’ earhole and screamed at him, so Jones shoved him away. It was symbolic of the Jones era, buying into Nick Saban’s “Process” so fully that one fourth-quarter miscommunication led to an emotional eruption, even though the team was minutes away from a third national championship.

That sort of pursuit of perfection — and willingness to not back down from anyone — is what made Jones such a great leader at Alabama.