Earlier this spring, we tried to tackle the SEC’s ‘All-Time Best’ at each position over a six-week period at SDS, sifting through media guides, old highlight films and decades worth of newspaper clippings and archived research to present intriguing content pieces to our audience during the dog days of the offseason.

Using our all-time positional rankings as a guide, here’s how the SEC’s all-time 1970s depth chart would look.

Editor’s note: Our all-decade teams are based off our all-time top 25 individual player rankings at each position. For instance, no quarterback who began his career in the 1970s was featured in our 25 all-time quarterbacks rankings. We’ve inserted a guy who ‘just missed the cut’ to pick a quarterback. Please refer to the individual lists to see where these players fell with regards to others at the same position.

SEC All-Decade Teams

  • 1980s
  • 1990s (later date)
  • 2000s
  • 2010s (later date)

SEC All-Decade Team: 1970s

QB: Whit Taylor, Vanderbilt, 1979-82

RB1: Charles Alexander, LSU, 1975-78

RB2: Sonny Collins, Kentucky, 1972-75

WR1: Ozzie Newsome, Alabama, 1974-77

WR2: Wes Chandler, Florida, 1974-77

DL1: Art Still, Kentucky, 1974-77

DL2: Leroy Cook, Alabama, 1972-75

LB1: Woodrow Lowe, Alabama, 1972-75

LB2: Barry Krause, Alabama, 1975-78

LB3: Warren Capone, LSU, 1970-73

LB4: Johnnie Cooks, Mississippi State, 1977-81

DB1: Tommy Wilcox, Alabama, 1979-82

DB2: Jeremiah Castille, Alabama, 1979-82