Nick Saban spent a lot of time talking about the players on his current roster at SEC Media Days, but he also found time to talk about one of his former players this week. When Saban appeared on “Jared and the GM” (WPRT-FM in Nashville) this week, the hosts wanted to hear the Alabama coach’s thoughts on former Crimson Tide LB Rashaan Evans, who now plays in the Music City as a rookie with the Tennessee Titans.

“He can run; he can rush. He’s a very instinctive player,” Saban said of Evans during an appearance on “Jared and the GM” on WPRT-FM in Nashville this week. “I think the No. 1 thing you don’t won’t to do with him is if you make him the signal-caller and bog him down with a lot of different things, it slows him down a little bit. If you can just put that guy with somebody that just lets him play, he’ll make a tremendous amount of plays. And he’s got a lot of versatility. He can do a lot of different things. He can play nickel, he can be a rusher in nickel, he can be a buck, a move-around guy.”

Saban compared Evans to another former UA linebacker now in the NFL, Dont’a Hightower.

“(Evans is) not as big as Hightower, but he can do a lot of things that Dont’a can do.”

Hightower is entering his seventh season in the NFL with the New England Patriots. If the Titans can get that kind of stability from Evans, they’ll likely be pleased with their first-round pick.