re: Top 10 players under Saban @ Bama?

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Just too many to list. I want Upshaw and HaHa on my list but didn't have room. While I think we have had better OL than Jones he may be the most decorated player ever at Bama.

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I put Jones in there for the same reason I put Hightower in- versatility. It's way too hard to list just top 10, which I am grateful Alabama has this problem.

What's even worse is that I totally forgot about Javy. Without a doubt a top 10 player.

Loved Javy on the CB blitzes. Remember whwn he took down Ryan Mallet in the Arkansas game.

I'll take a stab.

1) (easy #1) Julio Jones. Game changer. Culture changer. Perception changer. Effort changer. Julio never went out of bounds voluntarily. Ever.

The rest:
Trent Richardson. Don't care about him being a bust. He was the most dominant runner we had.
Hightower
Barron
Rolo
Cooper
Henry
Ingram
Dareus
AJ

Honorable Mentions:
Kevin Norwood - the Robert Horry of the Saban era.
Jawlston Fowler - warrior coming back from injury
Kenyan Drake - see Jawlston Fowler
Javy. Probably belongs in the top 10. Just too many.

Cooper
Julio Jones
Barrett Jones
McClain
Mosely
Fluker
Chance Warmack
Barron
Henry
Ragland

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Production

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He had only one season where he went over 1,000 yards receiving while at Alabama.

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Not to mention he is top 5 in many school record receiving categories, and top 10 in almost all of them.

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Which isn't hard to do when you consider Alabama didn't have a receiver go over the 1,000-yard mark in a season until 1993 (David Palmer). And that feat wasn't repeated again until 2006 (DJ Hall).

In all, here is the number of Alabama wide receivers who reached or eclipsed that 1,000-yard receiving mark:

David Palmer (1993)
DJ Hall (2006, 2007)
Julio Jones (2010)
Amari Cooper (2012, 2014)
Calvin Ridley (2015)

So it's not hard to believe that Julio Jones ranks up there in receiving yardage when you consider that there have only been 5 players in Alabama history to rack up 1,000+ receiving yards in a single season.

Julio Jones is without a doubt the most talented player of the Saban era (though Amari Cooper may have something to say about that), however his production does not warrant a place in the Top 10.