78th annual SEC post-spring football report: Alabama places 6 on preseason all-conference team

Nick Saban did not leave the cupboard bare in Tuscaloosa when he retired in January — far from it.

Alabama placed a league-high six players on the 78th annual preseason All-SEC team, published each year since 1947 by The Birmingham News and/or AL.com. That’s twice as many as any other team in the conference, with Georgia and Kentucky sharing second-place honors with three All-SEC picks each (it’s also worth nothing that two of the Crimson Tide’s representatives on the team are transfers brought in by new coach Kalen DeBoer).

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