Shaun Alexander

Former Alabama All-American Shaun Alexander was named to the Southeastern Conference’s 2018 Football Legends Class on Tuesday, the league office announced.

The former Crimson Tide All-American will be honored during the Weekend of Champions prior to the SEC Championship Game.

Shaun Alexander reflects on his football career and the recent unveiling of the Shuan Alexander Award.

GLENDALE, Ariz. – Of all the former Alabama players in Monday night’s postgame locker room, Shaun Alexander may have been the proudest of all. The Crimson Tide, of course, had just won another national championship – its fourth in seven seasons and its 16th claimed overall – but it was the current player who stood only a few feet away that seemed to get the best out of the former star running back

Glendale, Ariz. – If Monday night’s win was Derrick Henry’s final game at Alabama, he made sure to leave his mark before his departure. Though Henry said after the Crimson Tide’s 45-40 victory over Clemson in the College Football Playoff National Championship that he hasn’t yet made a decision about next season, it’s expected that the junior running back will declare for the 2016 NFL Draft... Read

GLENDALE, Ariz. – In his likely final game in an Alabama uniform, Derrick Henry went out with a bang. The Alabama junior running back broke the Alabama career rushing yards record, previously held by Shaun Alexander, during Monday’s 45-40 College Football Playoff National Championship win over Clemson...

Even after winning the Heisman Trophy, Derrick Henry hasn’t finished adding to his resume. During Saturday’s 38-0 College Football Playoff semifinals win over Michigan State, the Alabama junior running back became the first SEC player to reach the 2,000-yard mark rushing in a single season and just the 19th all-time in FBS history...

ATLANTA – Thirty-four years later, the record has fallen. In the second half of Saturday’s SEC Championship Game against Florida, Derrick Henry surpassed Herschel Walker’s SEC single-season rushing record of 1,891 yards set in 1981...

AUBURN, Ala. -- A win wasn't the only reward for Derrick Henry in Saturday's Iron Bowl victory over Auburn. Behind a career-best performance, Derrick Henry broke numerous records, most notably Trent Richardson’s school records for rushing yards and rushing touchdowns in a single season during the Crimson Tide’s 29-13 win on the Plains...

Add another record to Derrick Henry’s resume. On his 2-yard touchdown run in the first quarter against Charleston Southern on Saturday, the junior running back scored his 21st rushing touchdown this season, tying the single-season school record set by Trent Richardson in 2011...