Detroit Lions running back Jahmyr Gibbs led the NFL in touchdowns during with 2024 regular season. Like three of the eight other players who scored at least 14 touchdowns this season, Gibbs is an Alabama alumnus.
The 20 touchdowns scored by Gibbs, 18 by Baltimore Ravens running back Derrick Henry, 16 by Green Bay Packers running back Josh Jacobs and 14 by Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts were the cornerstones for the 128 touchdowns scored by 20 former Alabama players during the 2024 regular season.
All those touchdowns helped Alabama alumni total 886 points in 2024 – the most scored by a college program’s former players in one season in NFL history. The Crimson Tide’s current NFL collection flew past the mark of 705 points scored by former Florida State players in the 2016 season.
With 648 points in 2023, Alabama’s former players had scored the second-most by a college program’s alumni in one season.
A year later, the Tide group had 22 more touchdowns than in 2023. But Alabama’s NFL scoring total was given a boost that it hadn’t had previously by the arrival of Will Reichard. The rookie kicker for the Minnesota Vikings scored 110 points in 2024.
When Florida State’s alumni scored 705 points in 2016, former Seminoles totaled 37 touchdowns that season. But Florida State supplied four of the NFL’s regular kickers in 2016, with Robert Aguayo, Graham Gano, Dustin Hopkins and Sebastian Janikowski combining to score 481 points.
After the 128 touchdowns scored by former Alabama players, the second-highest TD total by players from the same college program in 2024 was posted by Ohio State alumni with 72.
In the 2010 NFL regular season, one player from Alabama scored a touchdown – running back Kenneth Darby, who reached the end zone three times for the St. Louis Rams.
Alabama’s NFL touchdown production has been climbing from that point and took a big jump in 2018, when 12 alumni scored 71 TDs. That broke the school record established the previous season when 11 former Crimson Tide players had scored 45.
Twenty Alabama alumni scored 85 touchdowns in 2019, 20 scored 83 TDs in 2020, 20 scored 96 TDs in 2021, 19 scored 100 TDs in 2022 and 18 scored 106 TDs in 2023.
Because of Darby’s 2010 touchdowns, former Alabama players have scored touchdowns in 49 consecutive seasons – every one since coming up empty in 1975.
In 1975, nine Alabama alumni played in at least one NFL regular-season game. Three are in the Pro Football Hall of Fame – New England Patriots guard John Hannah, New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath and Oakland Raiders quarterback Ken Stabler. But none of the nine scored a touchdown.
