Alabama quarterback Jalen Milroe has a chance to make the Crimson Tide the definitive “QBU” this week in the SEC.
If Milroe is selected in the first round of the 2025 NFL Draft, he will become the seventh Alabama quarterback drafted in the first round. That would be a definitive record for all 16 SEC teams in the history of NFL Drafts, according to AL.com research using Pro Football Reference data.
Right now Alabama is, sort of, tied with LSU and Florida for the most first-round quarterbacks in the NFL Draft. Essentially, it’s an asterisk three-way tie.
LSU also has six, if you count Y.A. Tittle twice. The LSU quarterback was drafted in the first round in 1948 and 1951 because he first chose to play in the All-America Football Conference instead of the NFL. Then his team in that league folded, so he could re-enter the NFL Draft again in 1951.
Florida has six first-round quarterbacks, if you want to count Wayne Peace. He was selected in the first round of the NFL’s supplemental draft in 1984.
So, depending on how you want to account for those two asterisks, Alabama might already be the definitive leader in first-round quarterbacks. But Milroe becoming a first-round draft pick would make Alabama the leader, without argument. It’s far from a given Milroe will hear his name Thursday, though. NFL mock drafts have him going everywhere from the first round to the third round.
Just know that SEC history hangs in the balance Thursday night when the draft starts in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Alabama first-round quarterbacks: Bryce Young, Mac Jones, Tua Tagovailoa, Richard Todd, Joe Namath and Harry Gilmer.
LSU first-round quarterbacks: Jayden Daniels, Joe Burrow, JaMarcus Russell, Bert Jones, Y.A. Tittle, Y.A. Tittle*
Florida first-round quarterbacks: Anthony Richardson, Tim Tebow, Rex Grossman, Wayne Peace*, John Reaves, Steve Spurrier.
Nick Kelly is an Alabama beat writer for AL.com and the Alabama Media Group. Follow him on X and Instagram.
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