2014 NFL Draft: Top 5 SEC Prospects Not Playing for Alabama

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Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports

This is the first of a series of articles that will outline the top five prospects eligible for the 2014 NFL draft. This is a purely subjective look at some of my personal favorite players from each of the major conferences. Obviously, over the course of the college football season, things will change. Of course, to kick things off, we have to get a little strange.

It only made sense that I start this little exercise with the power conference of all power conferences, the SEC. They are the conference that dominates the draft every year in prospects, and this year?s crop is no different. As I started putting in work for my top-five SEC draft-eligible prospects, three of them were going to come from the University of Alabama. We all understand that the Crimson Tide is the 800-pound gorilla in the middle of the room in terms of talent. There's no shame in that, but for this I wanted to give the rest of the conference a fair shake.

Rest assured, guys like C.J. Mosley, Adrian Hubbard and Hasean Clinton-Dix would have been firmly in the mix at numbers 3-5. But removing them allowed me to showcase some different names who have a shot to be really great this year.

The most notable omission from this list that should stir up Georgia fans is quarterback Aaron Murray. He was a tough player to leave off of this list, and could have easily been in the no. 5 hole. Murray is a very good player and could be one of the best college players in the entire nation this year. However, this is a list for NFL draft prospects and the more I look at Murray, the less enamored I am with him as an NFL player, and that keeps him just off the list.

So with that, lets take a look at the top five NFL draft prospects from the SEC who don?t suit up for the Crimson Tide.

Curt covers the NFL draft for Rant Sports. Connect with Curt on Twitter @nfldraftboard and on Google+.

Source: http://www.rantsports.com/nfl/2013/07/29/2014-nfl-draft-top-5-sec-prospects-not-playing-for-alabama/

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