Two former Alabama players make the 2024 Senior Bowl Hall of Fame Class

A special moment for the Alabama football program comes before the NFL Draft.

The Reese’s Senior Bowl (Mobile, Ala.) puts out great talent every year for the National Football League, and its 2024 Hall of Fame Class has been announced. Two former Crimson Tide standouts made the list as DeMeco Ryans and Marty Lyons are in the Hall of Fame as defensive players. Ryan, a Bessemer (Ala.) native, was a decorative inside linebacker for the Tide from 2002 to 2005. He was a first-team All-SEC selection, an Unanimous All-American selection, the SEC Defensive Player of the Year, and the Lott IMPACT Trophy winner in 2005. Ryans played 10 seasons in the NFL (2006-15) for the Houston Texans and Philadelphia Eagles before starting his coaching career. He was a defensive assistant for the San Francisco 49ers, but he rose up the ranks to be  the defensive coordinator from 2021 to 2022. Ryans is now the head coach of the team that drafted him as a player in 2006.