Asked recently to pick Alabama’s greatest wide receivers, DeVonta Smith named Julio Jones, Calvin Ridley and himself, in that order.

But when asked for his Mount Rushmore of Alabama wide receivers, Ridley left himself out.

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“Top four?” Ridley said when asked for his Mount Rushmore picks. “Definitely Julio. Definitely DeVonta Smith. Definitely Amari Cooper. Jerry Jeudy.”

Ridley had 224 receptions for 2,781 yards and 19 touchdowns from 2015 through 2017 at Alabama. He ranks third in receptions, fourth in receiving yards and sixth in TD receptions in Crimson Tide history.

“I think just coming in, watching Rid do the things he did,” Smith said about Ridley, “it was just like he amazing, like unguardable, I don’t care who they put over there. They knew where the ball was going, wasn’t nobody stopping it, and it was so amazing to me just watching him run routes.”

The Atlanta Falcons selected Ridley in the first round of the 2018 NFL Draft. In his 49 NFL games, Ridley has 248 receptions for 3,342 yards and 28 touchdowns. He’s the fifth player in the NFL’s Super Bowl era to reach those three numbers in that amount of games.

Jones and Cooper preceded Ridley at Alabama. Smith and Jeudy were freshmen in Ridley’s final season in 2017, when Ridley’s 63 receptions were 49 more than any other wide receiver on that season’s CFP national-championship team.

Like him, the four wide receivers named by Ridley were first-round picks in the NFL Draft.

Ridley is returning to the NFL this season with the Jacksonville Jaguars after sitting out the 2022 season for violating the NFL’s gambling policy.

Ridley received an indefinite suspension on March 7, 2022. The league reinstated Ridley on March 6 after he asked to have his eligibility restored on Feb. 15.

During Ridley’s suspension, the Jaguars obtained him in a trade with Atlanta.

Ridley is preparing to play in his first NFL regular-season game since Oct. 24, 2021, when Jacksonville kicks off its 2023 campaign on Sept. 10 with an AFC South road game against the Indianapolis Colts.

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