Alabama and the 2011 Award Watch Lists

The preseason awards watch lists are upon us signaling one more milestone on the way to the start of the season. These provide a helpful barometer for determining what players across the nation deserve a bit of additional scrutiny (as well as providing fodder for cranky content-starved columnists). The Crimson Tide defense, as you might expect, is represented quite well on these lists and the offense isn't doing too shabby to have lost three players in the first round of last year's draft. Here is the tally thus far: