Jumbo Package: Nick Saban maintains his dominance in the NFL, but warns of…

Happy Friday, everyone. Chase Goodbread wrote about how Saban continues to excel recruiting in the NIL world.

That’s not to say, of course, that the elite recruits Saban continues to stack so high aren’t set up for lucrative NIL deals. Alabama has deep pockets for NIL, and far deeper for football than in any other sport. Putting together the nation’s No. 2-ranked signing class necessarily means the Crimson Tide must be competitive in the NIL space.

But Saban, despite the tectonic shift in the recruiting landscape that NIL has brought about, hasn’t changed the player-development core of his pitch to recruits. That’s a wise approach, because while there will always be the occasional recruit who gets away because another school’s collective ponied up more dollars, Alabama continues to stand apart from its recruiting competition thanks to a Saban specialty: creating clear paths to the NFL.

An example of “Not a Saban Recruit:”