Eight Alabama players have been selected in the second round in the past four NFL drafts, and that doesn’t include quarterback Jalen Hurts, who was a second-round pick of the Philadelphia Eagles in 2020 after transferring to Oklahoma.

When the NFL teams make 32 selections in the second round of the 88th draft on April 28 in Kansas City, Missouri, the Crimson Tide might be represented by multiple players again. Safety Brian Branch and running back Jahmyr Gibbs seem likely candidates if they don’t go in the first round on April 27, and cornerback Eli Ricks could be there, too.

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The NFL has selected 46 players from Alabama in the second round of its drafts. That includes two players who have been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

The Oakland Raiders picked quarterback Ken Stabler at No. 52 in 1968, and the Miami Dolphins chose center Dwight Stephenson at No. 48 in 1980.

Because the picks that have comprised the second round have changed over the decades, there have been 58 players picked from Alabama with the 32nd through 63rd choices, which will be the selections in this year’s second round.

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The Alabama players who have been picked with the 32nd through 63rd selections of an NFL draft include:

No. 33 picks: George Hecht, guard, Chicago Cardinals, 1943; Mike Fracchia, back, St. Louis Cardinals, 1963; DeMeco Ryans, linebacker, Houston Texans, 2006; Landon Collins, defensive back, New York Giants, 2015.

Ryans earned the NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year Award in 2006, Collins made first-team All-Pro in his second season and Hecht and Fracchia played in a total of two games. Both belong to Hecht, whose two games with the Chicago Rockets of the All-American Football Conference came four years after he was drafted by Chicago’s “other” NFL team.

No. 34 picks: Walt Merrill, tackle, Brooklyn Dodgers, 1940; John Wozniak, guard, Pittsburgh Steelers, 1948; Cam Robinson, offensive tackle, Jacksonville Jaguars, 2017.

Wozniak shunned Pittsburgh to sign with the Brooklyn Dodgers of the All-American Football Conference. His NFL career ended in 1952, when, in the only season of the NFL’s Dallas Texans, he earned second-team All-Pro recognition. But Wozniak wasn’t finished with football. He played four more seasons with the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Western Interprovincial Football Union, which in 1958 joined the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union to form the Canadian Football League.

Merrill also had played for the Brooklyn Dodgers, but he spent three seasons with the NFL version of that team.

When healthy, Robinson has been the Jaguars’ left offensive tackle since joining the team.

No. 35 picks: Kevin Lee, wide receiver, New England Patriots, 1994; Courtney Upshaw, linebacker, Baltimore Ravens, 2012.

Upshaw was a Super Bowl winner in his rookie season, which ended with Baltimore’s 34-31 victory over the San Francisco 49ers. The former Eufaula High School standout returned to the Super Bowl with Atlanta, but the Falcons lost to the New England Patriots 34-28 in overtime to cap the 2016 campaign.

No. 36 picks: George Thornton, defensive tackle, San Diego Chargers, 1991; T.J. Yeldon, running back, Jacksonville Jaguars, 2015; Xavier McKinney, safety, New York Giants, 2020.

Thornton’s career came to a premature end when he suffered a stroke during the 1993 season.

Yeldon ran for 2,005 yards and six touchdowns and caught 185 passes for 1,448 yards and seven touchdowns in 60 games in six seasons.

After a training-camp injury cut into his rookie season, McKinney was one of three NFL players with at least 90 tackles and five interceptions during the 2021 season.

No. 37 pick: Landon Dickerson, center, Philadelphia Eagles, 2021.

Dickerson received Pro Bowl recognition as the Eagles’ left guard in his second season.

No. 38 pick: Christian Barmore, defensive tackle, New England Patriots, 2021.

Barmore earned a spot on the Pro Football Writers of America’s All-Rookie team.

No. 39 pick: Larry Roberts, defensive end, San Francisco 49ers, 1986.

Roberts spent all eight of his NFL seasons with San Francisco and won two Super Bowl rings with the 49ers.

No. 40 picks: Ray Ogden, tight end, St. Louis Cardinals, 1965; Bob Baumhower, nose tackle, Miami Dolphins, 1977; David Palmer, wide receiver, Minnesota Vikings, 1994.

Ogden was the first player to play for both New Orleans and Atlanta. In New Orleans’ inaugural season, Odgen played two games for the Saints in 1967 and finished his season by playing in seven games for the Falcons.

Baumhower earned five Pro Bowl invitations in his nine seasons as a Miami starter, was a first-team All-Pro pick in 1983 and played in two Super Bowls.

Palmer was the first player with 1,000 receiving yards in a season at Alabama, and he finished third in the balloting for the 1993 Heisman Trophy. In seven seasons with the Vikings, Palmer caught 162 passes for 1,610 yards, and he has more punt-return and more kickoff-return yards in the NFL than any other Alabama alumnus.

No. 41 pick: Reggie Ragland, linebacker, Buffalo Bills, 2016.

Ragland never played for Buffalo after suffering a knee injury in training camp that caused him to miss his rookie season. Traded to Kansas City in 2017, Ragland earned a Super Bowl ring with the Chiefs in 2019. The former Bob Jones High School standout played for the Detroit Lions in 2020, the New York Giants in 2021 and the Cleveland Browns in 2022.

No. 42 pick: Cornelius Griffin, defensive tackle, New York Giants, 2000.

Among Alabama alumni who were strictly defensive linemen, Griffin’s 130 NFL starts rank second only to Marty Lyons’ 135.

No. 43 picks: Billy Neighbors, guard, Washington Redskins, 1962; Roman Harper, defensive back, New Orleans Saints, 2006.

Both No. 43 picks were all-stars. Neighbors was All-AFL for the Boston Patriots in 1964 after taking the “other” league’s offer in 1962. Harper earned Pro Bowl invitations with New Orleans in 2009, when the Saints won the Super Bowl, and 2010.

No. 44 picks: Kavanaugh Francis, center, Detroit Lions, 1936; Cyrus Kouandjio, tackle, Buffalo Bills, 2014; John Metchie III, 2022, Houston Texans.

Francis was the third Alabama player picked in an NFL draft, following Riley Smith and Paul “Bear” Bryant in the inaugural event. But he never played in the NFL.

Metchie hasn’t played in the NFL yet. After being diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia in July 2022, the wide receiver missed his rookie season.

No. 45 pick: Derrick Henry, running back, Tennessee Titans, 2016.

Henry won the Heisman Trophy in 2015 by running for an SEC-record 2,219 yards and 28 touchdowns and joined the Titans as a second-round draft choice — 17 spots behind where Alabama’s first Heisman winner, Mark Ingram, went in the draft in 2011. In two NFL seasons backing up DeMarco Murray, Henry ran for 1,234 yards. Without Murray on the Titans, Henry ran for 1,059 yards in 2018, when he broke the second 99-yard run from scrimmage in NFL history, then posted a league-leading 1,540 rushing yards in 2019 and became the eighth player in NFL history to rush for 2,000 yards in a season in 2020. A broken foot in 2021 likely cost Henry a third straight rushing title. In 2022, he finished as the runner-up to another Alabama alumnus, Josh Jacobs.

No. 46 picks: Sherman Williams, running back, Dallas Cowboys, 1995; Justin Smiley, guard, San Francisco 49ers, 2004; A’Shawn Robinson, defensive tackle, Detroit Lions, 2016.

Williams was a member of the Dallas team that won the Super Bowl for the 1995 season, and Robinson earned a Super Bowl ring with the Los Angeles Rams in the 2021 season.

No. 47 pick: Phidarian Mathis, defensive tackle, Washington Commanders, 2022.

Washington picked Mathis even though it already had two Crimson Tide defensive tackles in its starting lineup with Jonathan Allen and Daron Payne. Mathis suffered a torn meniscus on the third snap of his rookie season, and the knee injury caused him to miss the rest of the campaign.

No. 48 picks: Dwight Stephenson, center, Miami Dolphins, 1980; Siran Stacy, running back, Philadelphia Eagles, 1992.

Stephenson didn’t become a full-time starter until his third season, and six years later, he suffered a career-ending injury. In between, he was a Pro Bowler five times and a first-team All-Pro four times. He joined the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1998 and was selected for the NFL All-Time Team during the league’s centennial celebration.

No. 49 picks: Jarran Reed, defensive tackle, Seattle Seahawks, 2016; Ryan Anderson, outside linebacker, Washington Redskins, 2017.

Reed is preparing to play for the Seahawks again in 2023. He spent his first five seasons in Seattle, then played for the Kansas City Chiefs in 2021 and the Green Bay Packers in 2022 before returning to the Seahawks in free agency this offseason.

No. 50 picks: Javier Arenas, defensive back, Kansas City Chiefs, 2010; Irv Smith Jr., tight end, Minnesota Vikings, 2019.

No. 51 picks: Lester Sims, defensive end, Cleveland Browns, 1972; Trevon Diggs, cornerback, Dallas Cowboys, 2020.

In his second NFL season, Diggs earned All-Pro recognition with the highest interception total in 40 years. Diggs led the NFL in 2021 with 11 interceptions, 142 interception-return yards and two interception-return touchdowns.

No. 52 pick: Ken Stabler, quarterback, Oakland Raiders, 1968.

Stabler played for the Spokane Shockers of the Continental Football League before he ever took a snap for the Raiders. But when he replaced Daryle Lamonica as Oakland’s quarterback, “Snake” was on the way to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, although it took until 2016 for the former Foley High School star to be enshrined. Stabler was the NFL MVP in 1974 and, two seasons later, led Oakland to the NFL championship with a victory in Super Bowl XI.

No. 53 picks: Leroy Monsky, guard, Brooklyn Dodgers, 1938; Mike Washington, cornerback, Baltimore Colts, 1975.

Both the No. 53 picks were natives of Montgomery, with Monsky prepping at Sidney Lanier and Washington at Lee. Monsky was an All-American at Alabama, but he didn’t continue his football career in the NFL. Washington played 100 NFL regular-season games, all with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and intercepted 28 passes before a head injury in the first game of the 1984 season ended his career. Among Alabama alumni, only Lee Roy Jordan with 32 and Don Hutson with 30 have more NFL interceptions than Washington.

No. 54 picks: George Mason, tackle, Pittsburgh Steelers, 1955; Wayne Wheeler, wide receiver, Chicago Bears, 1974; Rod Rutledge, tight end, New England Patriots, 1998.

Wheeler caught five passes in the NFL, but one was a 19-yard touchdown reception from quarterback Bobby Douglass in the Bears’ 28-21 loss to the San Diego Chargers on Dec. 8, 1974.

Rutledge started 14 games and caught five passes for the first Super Bowl-winning team for Bill Belichick and Tom Brady in New England.

No. 55 pick: Dalvin Tomlinson, defensive tackle, New York Giants, 2017.

After starting every game for four seasons in New York, Tomlinson signed a two-year, $21 million contract with the Minnesota Vikings in free agency in 2021. In 2023, he cashed in again in free agency with a four-year, $57 million contract from the Cleveland Browns.

No. 56 pick: Charley Hannah, guard, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 1977; Tony Dixon, defensive back, Dallas Cowboys, 2001; Raekwon Davis, defensive tackle, Miami Dolphins, 2020.

Hannah started his NFL career as a defensive lineman and ended it as an offensive lineman. In between, he played in 148 NFL regular-season games, with 126 starts. In 1983, Hannah was the left guard for the Oakland Raiders’ Super Bowl championship team.

Davis earned a spot on the Professional Football Writers of America’s All-Rookie team for the 2020 season.

No. 57 picks: Antwan Odom, defensive end, Tennessee Titans, 2004; Terrence Cody, defensive tackle, Baltimore Ravens, 2010.

During his seven NFL seasons, Odom scored two touchdowns — both on fumble recoveries for the Titans in 2005. He had a 25-yard return in a 31-27 loss to the St. Louis Rams on Sept. 25 and a 27-yard return in a 31-28 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars on Nov. 20. They were the only two fumble recoveries of Odom’s career.

A two-time consensus All-American for the Crimson Tide, Cody was part of the Baltimore team that capped the 2012 season with a victory in Super Bowl XLVII.

No. 58 pick: Hal Newman, end, Brooklyn Dodgers, 1941.

Newman never made it to the NFL, although he did play football after Alabama. Drafted (by the military this time) after agreeing to a $165-per-game contract with Brooklyn, Newman was the co-captain of the Randolph Field Ramblers, who won the 1944 national service team championship and finished third in the 1944 AP Poll behind Army and Ohio State.

No. 60 picks: Jeremy Nunley, defensive end, Houston Oilers, 1994; Cyrus Jones, defensive back, New England Patriots, 2016.

Jones’ career came to a premature end after three seasons when he had open-heart surgery to repair an anomalous coronary artery.

No. 61 picks: Benny Nelson, defensive back, Detroit Lions, 1964; Tony Nathan, running back, Miami Dolphins, 1979; Eddie Lacy, running back, Green Bay Packers, 2013.

Nelson did not play for Detroit but joined the AFL’s Houston Oilers. In his only season, Nelson intercepted one pass, which he returned 45 yards for a touchdown in a 42-28 victory over the Oakland Raiders on Sept. 19, 1964. The interception came off Tom Flores, who threw four picks in the game.

Nathan and Lacy were all-stars as rookies. Nathan was the All-Pro return specialist in 1979, when he led the NFL in punt-return average. Lacy earned a Pro Bowl invitation in 2013 when he ran for 1,178 yards and 11 touchdowns.

No. 62 picks: Johnny Musso, running back, Chicago Bears, 1972; Antonio London, linebacker, Detroit Lions, 1993.

Musso held Alabama’s career rushing record for 14 years after his final game for the Crimson Tide. But he reached Chicago only after playing in two other leagues. Coming out of Alabama, Musso took a higher contract offer from the British Columbia Lions. He played in the CFL for three seasons and was a 1,000-yard rusher and all-star in 1973. In 1974, Musso played for the WFL’s Birmingham Americans. He joined the Bears in 1975, the same year that Walter Payton arrived in Chicago. In three seasons, Musso ran for 365 yards and six touchdowns on 100 carries before an ankle injury ended his career.

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.