DeVonta Smith played with four other wide receivers at Alabama who also entered the NFL as first-round draft picks.

The Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver played for the Crimson Tide from 2017 through 2020, and his teammates included Jerry Jeudy, Calvin Ridley, Henry Ruggs III and Jaylen Waddle.

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Which of those first-rounders does Smith think is Alabama’s best wide receiver?

None, it turns out. His choice is Julio Jones.

“I’m always going to put Julio first,” Smith said during an appearance on this week’s “The Pivot Podcast.” “That’s a pioneer. That’s No. 1, for sure. Can’t do nothing about that.”

A former Foley High School star, Jones played at Alabama from 2008 through 2010. He broke the school records for receptions in a season and receiving yards in a game and a season before joining the Atlanta Falcons as the sixth selection in the 2011 NFL Draft.

Over the next nine seasons, Jones was chosen for the Pro Bowl seven times, made first-team All-Pro twice and second-team All-Pro three times and led the NFL in receiving yards in 2015 and 2018. Jones has more NFL receptions and receiving yards than any other Alabama alumnus.

Smith put Ridley at No. 2 among Alabama’s wide receivers. Ridley’s final season with the Tide was Smith’s first.

“I think just coming in, watching Rid do the things he did,” Smith said, “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 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.

After Jones and Ridley, Smith slotted himself into the No. 3 spot.

Smith holds the Alabama career records for receptions, receiving yards and touchdown receptions, and he’s also the SEC career record holder for receiving yards and touchdown receptions.

In 2020, Smith set SEC single-season records for receiving yards and TD receptions as he had 117 receptions for 1,856 yards and 23 touchdowns for Alabama’s undefeated CFP national-championship team.

Smith was a unanimous All-American, won the Biletnikoff Award as the nation’s best receiver and received the Heisman Trophy, Maxwell Award and Walter Camp Player of the Year Award in 2020.

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Smith said playing with so many talented wide receivers at Alabama had made him better.

“I think it brought the best out of all of us,” Smith said. “Everybody was different in the things that they did. But you see those guys, you see what they do, and then you’re ‘OK, that’s something I want to put in my toolbox.’ Like everybody had their own way of route running, their own way of getting open, their own way of making things happen with the ball, so it was just kind of like you see these guys and everybody’s excited for each other. And it’s just like, ‘I want to be able to do that. I want to put that in my game.’

“You just worked on it. You talked it over with those guys, and everybody just helped each other out.”

While Smith finished his Alabama career with 235 receptions for 3,965 yards and 46 touchdowns, he caught only eight passes in his freshman season.

But his final reception of the 2017 campaign was a 41-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Tua Tagovailoa that lifted the Crimson Tide to a 26-23 overtime victory against Georgia in the CFP national-championship game.

“It was always: Be ready when your number’s called,” Smith said. “Opportunities were limited, so you had to make the most of them. Just being out there with those guys, that’s something that coach (Mike) Locksley always preached to us: I’m going to throw you guys in there. I don’t have no control over when you get the ball. When it come to you, just be ready. So that was the main thing: Just making sure I always stayed ready.”

Since joining the Philadelphia Eagles as the 10th pick in the 2021 NFL Draft, Smith has had 64 receptions for 916 yards and five touchdowns as rookie and 95 receptions for 1,196 yards and seven touchdowns in 2022. He set a franchise rookie record for receiving yards in 2021 and a franchise wide-receiver record for receptions last season.

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