Nick Saban and his staff are the best closers in college football.

Sunday was some of the Crimson Tide staff’s finest work.

As Saban and company aim to finish No. 1 in the 247Sports Recruiting Rankings for a seventh-straight year, they lured in another big fish in five-star linebacker Dylan Moses, who seemed destined for LSU dating back to 2013 when he emerged as the first blue-chip recruit in the 2017.

Moses took his official visit to Tuscaloosa this weekend and the country’s top-ranked outside linebacker per 247Sports abruptly ended the recruiting process in favor of Alabama.

“After talking to my parents, I’ve decided to shut my recruitment down,” Moses tweeted. “I will not be taking anymore visits. I want to thank every coach that offered me and took interest in me as a player/person. I have decided to commit to the University of Alabama.”

With Moses in the fold, the Crimson Tide close Ohio State’s gap on them for the nation’s top-ranked recruiting class in 2017. Even more impressive, with Moses’s commitment, Alabama now holds verbals from the three of the top five ranked recruits per the industry-generated 247Sports Composite in No. 1 Najee Harris, No. 4 Moses and No. 5 Alex Leatherwood.

This was the first official visit for the Bradenton (Fla.) IMG Academy standout who had trips scheduled to Miami, Texas, UCLA and Ohio State later this fall. However those four were never considered serious contenders. It was always going to be LSU and if not them, Alabama.

Moses committed to LSU in September of 2013, but reopened the process nearly two years later in August of 2015. The Tigers were still considered the leader.

When Les Miles was fired last Sunday, it still seemed like Moses would ultimately end up back in Baton Rouge.

Saban, Tosh Lupoi and what he saw at Alabama obviously convinced him otherwise. Moses will enroll early in Tuscaloosa.

LSU is very tough to beat for Louisiana products they covet but Saban has done it before, the most notable recent win before today being Cam Robinson.

The Crimson Tide and Tigers were the first two program to offer Moses when he was in middle school. As an eighth grader I saw him running around on the same field at the Football University Top Gun Camp in Dublin, Ohio as then touted recruits and physical specimens in North Carolina running back Elijah Hood and Texas running back Chris Warren. Moses at that age looked like their peer.

Fast forward to now and Moses doesn’t have many peers. He is the most athletic linebacker in America, clocking a 4.56 laser-time 40-yard dash this summer at The Opening Finals with a ridiculous 4.09 shuttle at 6-foot-2 ½, 235-pounds. Baron Browning and Willie Gay are the only other two linebackers in 2017 that are in the same realm as Moses from an athleticism perspective.

In fact, there hasn’t been a linebacker as good as Moses in space since Jaylon Smith came out in 2012. The former Notre Dame linebacker went on to win the Butkus Award last year awarded to college football's top linebacker. Moses’s ability to fly around, change direction, attack ball carriers and cover is second to none.

Moses is commit No. 21 for Alabama in 2017. He is the seventh ranked inside the Top100 which includes another special linebacker recruit in VanDarius Cowan.

The rich certainly got richer this weekend and there likely won’t be a more notable recruiting win in the 2017 cycle.