Updating Saban's impressive draft numbers

One of the problems to writing a football book that uses a lot of statistics about an active coach is knowing where to draw the line. Otherwise, you'll never stop updating the numbers. 

For Nick Saban vs. College Football, the decision was made to stop before the 2014 NFL Draft, which makes things a little statistically unbalanced (you'll see what I mean when it comes out), but we needed to get the thing to the printer. 

So, here's update some things I researched myself, and used in a recent Bleacher Report article to preview the draft:  

1) Saban now has the most first-round draft picks by an active coach. It was previously Mack Brown, who has stepped down at Texas. With two this year, Saban is up to 21.

2) Saban has the highest career average of first-round selections by any active coach. It was Les Miles with a career average of 1.17, compared to Saban’s 1.12 (which doesn't include at least six LSU players credit to Miles who Saban recruited). 

After Odell Beckham was first-round selection, Miles has 15 in 14 years, for a 1.07 average. But with his two picks this year Saban's career average is up to 1.17.

3) Saban has had the most first-round selections of any Alabama coach. He's had 16 with the Crimson Tide while Paul W. “Bear” Bryant had 14.

4) Saban's average of 2.3 first-round draft picks at Alabama is unparalleled in college football history. 

5) Saban moved into the top five for all-time first-round selections. At his current pace at Alabama, he'll catch Joe Paterno's 33 during the 2018 draft.

Nick Saban vs. College Football is due out in August.