Trivia
Trivia for April 23, 2020
Question
Tua Tagovailoa and Jalen Hurts both played for Nick Saban at Alabama, and they’ll both be selected in this week’s draft. Saban has spent 24 seasons as a head coach at the college level. What quarterback who started for Saban in college has won the most games as a starter in the NFL?
Answer
Tony Banks. In Saban's first year at Michigan State -- 1995 -- Banks was his quarterback. He was drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the second round in 1996 and went 35-43 as a starter with four different NFL teams. Two other Saban quarterbacks have won games at the NFL level. JaMarcus Russell (who started one game in Saban’s final season at Louisiana State in 2004) went 7-18 as a starter for the Raiders. Next in line would be AJ McCarron, who’s been in the league since 2014 and is 2-2 as a starter. Saban has been at Alabama since 2007. He previously coached at Toledo, Michigan State and LSU.