Recently someone made a comment about how the defensive line is the hardest positions to evaluate and recruit, especially when running a 3-4 defense, making the struggles of the 2010 d-line and current worries over the 2011 line a mere result of what is basically a recruiting crapshoot. Nick Saban's recent comments concerning a lack of "dominating down guys" tends to back that up considering, of the four recruiting classes he has signed at Alabama that have had an opportunity to play, only a couple of players stand out among the 27 total d-line signees. So let's go through the defensive line recruits from each year and try to figure out if that's a reasonable position to take.
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