We all know the Southeastern Conference annually produces the most prospects for the NFL and that has been proven to be true as the SEC has sent more draft selections to the NFL each and every draft for 13 consecutive years.

The real question is, which SEC player will turn out to be the best pro? That’s usually a difficult question to answer but it’s not this year, at least, not if you ask SEC coaches.

Thanks to Matt Zenitz of AL.com, who recently published an article featuring an anonymous poll of 11 SEC staffers, we know that the vast majority of those polled have Derrick Brown as the best future pro of the bunch.

According to Zenitz, 9 of the 11 SEC staffers cast their vote for Brown as the SEC’s most likely future star.

“Best player in America that I saw in person and on tape,” one defensive staffer said. Brown, who may have gone in the first round of the 2019 NFL draft had he turned pro, tallied 55 tackles, 12.5 tackles for a loss and four sacks as a senior for Auburn last season. “You panicked every time you had him singled up in protection, just wondering if your guy was going to be able to hold up,” a director of player personnel said. “Kevin Steele did a really good job getting him mismatched on your worst offensive lineman. Kevin also did a really good job of when the other team had him matched up or whatever, he would bring pressure away from him and cause the offense to slide protection away from Derrick that left him singled up and gave him the best matchup. I thought that was schematically really smart and something inside the game that people don’t see a lot of times.”

Brown is currently projected as a top 10 selection in the 2020 NFL Draft but it makes you wonder if personnel departments in the league see the same thing as these SEC staffers, there’s a chance Brown goes much higher than many are currently projecting Brown to go in the upcoming draft.