Let’s start with this: On talent alone, Tua Tagovailoa could own just about every SEC single-season mark that exists.

Whether he rewrites the top line or merely bumps somebody from 3rd to 4th is almost entirely in the hands of his head coach.

I’ve written a couple of times this offseason that I expect Nick Saban to essentially put  a restrictor plate on Tagovailoa and rev up the running game in 2019. I hope I’m wrong. I want to watch 4,700 yards, 50 TDs and a Heisman speech.

Tagovailoa set Alabama single-season records last season with 3,966 yards and 43 TDs. Can he top those? He’ll need Saban’s permission.

Here are 7 program and SEC records he’ll be chasing in 2019, almost assuredly his final season before heading to the NFL.

1. Alabama’s career yards

Go big, right?

AJ McCarron threw for a program-best 9,019 yards — in 3 years as the starter.

Tagovailoa has 4,602 yards — in 1 year as the starter. The magic number is 4,418 yards to break McCarron’s record. Again, talent-wise with 15 games, it would be close to a lock.

Tagovailoa needs just 3,323 yards to move ahead of John Parker Wilson for 2nd all-time.

2. SEC single-season yards

If Tagovailoa breaks Bama’s career mark, he’ll also break this one.

Tim Couch threw for 4,275 yards in 1998. It’s been a magic number for two decades. Johnny Manziel (4,114 in 2013) and Chad Kelly (4,042 in 2015) are the only other SEC QBs to reach 4,000 yards.

All 3 attempted at least 429 passes; Couch threw it 533 times.

Tagovailoa threw just 355 passes last season (23.7 per game), and still finished with 3,966 yards. Give him 500 attempts — just 33 per game if Alabama plays 15 — and this record falls, too, along with his program-record 3,966 yards that he set last year.

3. SEC single-season TD passes

Drew Lock set the record with 44 in 2017. Tagovailoa came oh, so close last season, finishing with a program-best 43. In the process, he became just the 3rd SEC QB to reach 40. (Andre Woodson held the record with 40 until Lock broke it.)

He probably should have broken it last year. Mississippi State and Georgia each held him to 1 TD pass, and he only threw 2 in the national title game against Clemson.

4. Alabama career TD passes

Tagovailoa enters his junior season with 54 career TD passes. McCarron holds the record with 77.

Tagovailoa needs 24 to break it. Last season, he threw his 25th TD pass in Alabama’s 8th game.

Assuming he stays healthy, a requisite for all of these pursuits, this is the “easiest” bar to clear.

Aaron Murray holds SEC record, with 121. Tagovailoa has no shot at that, but he has a chance to bump Peyton Manning (89) for 4th place and perhaps Drew Lock (99) for 3rd.

5. Alabama TD passes in a game

Tagovailoa could have set this several times last season, but Saban either shut it down or went to Jalen Hurts.

The program record is 5, a modest figure that Tagovailoa tied in the Iron Bowl. But he threw 4 TD passes in 5 other games, including 4 in which he didn’t throw a pass in the 4th quarter.

The SEC record is 7 in a game. Want to keep fans in the stands? Let him make a run at that in the fourth quarter against an SEC team. Nobody walks out on history.

6. Most career games with 4 or more TD passes

McCarron also holds this Alabama record with 7.

Tagovailoa already has 6. This record could and should fall in Week 2.

7. Most 80+ yard TD passes in Alabama history

Five Alabama QBs have thrown 2 TD passes covering at least 80 yards.

Tagovailoa has 1 — the 81-yard post to Jerry Jeudy on the second play of the game against Missouri last season.

But he also had a 77-yarder to Jaylen Waddle to start a drive against Tennessee, a 76-yarder to Irv Smith to open the game against Arkansas, and a 79-yarder to Jeudy against Ole Miss.

Basically, the only way he doesn’t break this record is if Alabama starts every possession at its 21 or greater.