SEC All-Decade team: 2000s
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-Decade 2000s depth chart would look.
RELATED: SEC’s All-Decade Team 1980s
Editor’s note: Our all-decade teams are based off our all-time top 25 individual player rankings at each position. For instance, 10 wide receivers from the 2000s appeared in our all-time top 25 rankings at the position. Please refer to the individual lists to see where these players fell with regards to others at the same position.
- SEC’s Top 25 all-time best QBs
- SEC’s Top 25 all-time best RBs
- SEC’s Top 25 all-time best WRs
- SEC’s Top 25 all-time best DL
- SEC’s Top 25 all-time best LBs
- SEC’s Top 25 all-time best DBs
SEC All-Decade Team: 2000s
QB1: Tim Tebow, Florida, 2006-09
QB2: David Greene, Georgia, 2001-04
QB3: Eli Manning, Ole Miss, 2000-03
QB4: Chris Leak, Florida, 2003-06
QB5: Rex Grossman, Florida, 2000-02
RB1: Darren McFadden, Arkansas, 2005-07
RB2: Mark Ingram, Alabama, 2008-10
RB3: Cadillac Williams, Auburn, 2001-04
RB4: Trent Richardson, Alabama, 2009-11
RB5: Anthony Dixon, Mississippi State, 2006-09
WR1: Julio Jones, Alabama, 2008-10
WR2: A.J. Green, Georgia, 2008-10
WR3: Percy Harvin, Florida, 2006-08
WR4: Alshon Jeffery, South Carolina, 2009-11
WR5: Dwayne Bowe, LSU, 2003-06
WR6: Jarius Wright, Arkansas, 2008-11
WR7: Earl Bennett, Vanderbilt, 2005-07
WR8: D.J. Hall, Alabama, 2004-07
WR9: Jabar Gaffney, Florida, 2000-01
WR10: Sidney Rice, South Carolina, 2005-06
DL1: David Pollack, Georgia, 2001-04
DL2: Glenn Dorsey, LSU, 2004-07
DL3: Chad Lavalais, LSU, 2000-03
DL4: Terrence Cody, Alabama, 2008-09
DL5: Nick Fairley, Auburn, 2009-10
DL6: Marcus Spears, LSU, 2001-04
DL7: Melvin Ingram, South Carolina, 2007-11
DL8: Greg Hardy, Ole Miss, 2006-09
LB1: Patrick Willis, Ole Miss, 2003-06
LB2: Brandon Spikes, Florida, 2006-09
LB3: Rolando McClain, Alabama, 2007-09
LB4: Demeco Ryans, Alabama, 2002-05
LB5: Eric Norwood, South Carolina, 2006-09
DB1: Eric Berry, Tennessee, 2007-09
DB2: Patrick Peterson, LSU, 2008-10
DB3: Carlos Rogers, Auburn, 2001-04
DB4: Mark Barron, Alabama, 2008-11
DB5: Joe Haden, Florida, 2007-09
DB6: Corey Webster, LSU, 2001-04
DB7: Keiwan Ratliff, Florida, 2000-03
DB8: Morris Claiborne, LSU, 2009-11
