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Alabama players voted to postpone NFL Draft grade inquiry until after Monday
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Alabama coach Nick Saban has been open about the fact that the team had too many distractions in last season’s College Football Playoff semifinal loss to Ohio State.
One of those was due to several players being anxious about going to the NFL and how high they could potentially be taken.
That doesn’t seem like it’ll be a problem this season.
According to ESPN’s Joe Schad, junior tight end O.J. Howard told him that the players took a collective vote about it, and the results led to the team delaying any inquiry to the NFL about their draft prospects until after the national championship game against Clemson on Monday.
Alabama TE OJ Howard told me the team took a vote to withhold NFL Draft grade feedback until after the championship game
— Joe Schad (@schadjoe) January 9, 2016
The Crimson Tide had seven players selected in last year’s draft: receiver Amari Cooper, safety Landon Collins, running back T.J. Yeldon, fullback Jalston Fowler, offensive linemen Arie Kouandjio and Austin Shepherd as well as Xzavier Dickson.
Born and raised in Gainesville, Talal joined SDS in 2015 after spending 2 years in Bristol as an ESPN researcher. Previously, Talal worked at The Gainesville Sun.
