The case for Nick Saban to return to the NFL comes up almost every season. But it doesn’t always come from one of his former players.

It did this time, from former LSU player Ryan Clark on ESPN’s “Get Up” with Mike Greenberg.

“If you’re Green Bay, you sell the farm,” Ryan Clark said. “You send everybody to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and you try to get Nick Saban to leave Alabama and become the coach.”

Clark went on to outline other successful coach-quarterback relationships, from Sean Payton and Drew Brees in New Orleans, to Bill Belichick and Tom Brady at New England.

“There’s no one who could hold Aaron Rodgers more accountable than Nick Saban,” Clark said. “If he asks for $10 million, you give it to him. Nothing left to prove in Tuscaloosa. He’s the guy you need.”

Candidly, Clark admitted what he would do if he were in Saban’s shoes.

“I wouldn’t leave a school that put a statue up while I was alive, either,” Clark said. “But for Nick Saban, there’s nothing else to prove there. It’s time to take on a challenge, and this is a guy who loves challenges. You have an all-time great quarterback. Why not go get the all-time greatest coach in college football.”

Saban makes more than $8 million per year at Alabama, and has six national championships in college as the Crimson Tide prepare to meet Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl semifinal of the College Football Playoff. A win would be Saban’s first back-to-back national championship since the 2011-12 and 2012-13 seasons.