Mark Inabinett | minabinett@al.com

The 2023 season is the 10th that Mark Inabinett has covered players with Alabama football roots in the NFL and the 15th for which he has created SEC Football by the Numbers on a weekly basis. Inabinett's byline appeared in a newspaper for the first time in 1976. The intervening years have included a variety of positions and responsibilities in journalism, from working in the darkroom and catching papers off the press to serving as managing or executive editor for nine newspapers. Over the years, Inabinett's professional accolades have included two stories recognized as Top 10 Gamers in The Associated Press' annual national competition and three Community Service Awards from the Alabama Press Association. Inabinett also is the author of “Grantland Rice and His Heroes: The Sportswriter as Myth-Maker in the 1920s,” published by the University of Tennessee Press. He has an undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina and a master’s degree from the University of Kansas.