Alabama’s football pipeline has produced plenty of NFL stars, but when it comes to pure scoring, the top of the list is loaded with kickers and a handful of game-breaking playmakers.
At the very top sits Al Del Greco, the Auburn kicker who piled up 1,584 points across 18 seasons with the Packers, Cardinals and Oilers/Titans. Rob Bironas, another Auburn product, is next at 1,032 points after a nine-year run with Tennessee. Then comes Terrell Owens, the Benjamin Russell High School standout who scored 942 points over a long, decorated career that ended with 156 touchdowns and a Hall of Fame induction in 2018.
Lawrence Tynes, who played at Troy, checks in fourth with 927 points, while Daniel Carlson of Auburn is right behind him at 919. Carlson was active in the 2025 season and needs 81 points to join Del Greco and Bironas as Alabama’s 1,000-point NFL scorers, though he became a free agent this offseason and remains unsigned.
The rest of the top 10 shows just how diverse Alabama’s NFL scoring roots really are. Don Hutson, the Alabama receiver who became the first NFL player to reach 100 touchdowns, ranks sixth with 825 points.
Derrick Henry, also from Alabama, is seventh with 766 after 122 rushing touchdowns, five receiving touchdowns and two 2-point conversions. Shaun Alexander follows at 672, built on 100 rushing touchdowns and 12 receiving touchdowns, plus that 28-touchdown explosion in 2005 that set the NFL single-season touchdown record at the time.
The final two spots belong to Neil O’Donoghue of Auburn and Tyreek Hill of West Alabama, both at 576 points. Hill’s total includes 83 receiving touchdowns, seven rushing touchdowns, four punt-return touchdowns, one kickoff-return touchdown and one fumble-recovery touchdown.
The Alabama connection also shows up in some of the league’s biggest touchdown names. Owens and Henry are among the top 10 touchdown scorers in NFL history, while Hutson and Alexander are two of the other 28 players who have reached at least 100 touchdowns. Del Greco and Bironas are the state’s top two scorers by a wide margin, and Carlson’s next milestone is still within reach if he gets back on the field.
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