Congrats to the CUSA players drafted on the first day of the USFL draft. It’s not surprising to see quite a few with Skip Holtz in Birmingham. They’re drafting by position group so that’s how I listed them. Tomorrow is WR, RB, TE, OG, C, DT, LB, S, K/P, LS.

Alex McGough, FIU (6th QB -Birmingham)
J’Mar Smith, Tech (11th QB-Birmingham)

Michael Rodriguez, Tech (10th OT - Philly)
O’Shea Dugas, Tech (15th OT - Birmingham)
Justice Powers, UAB (18th OT-Birmingham)
Joshua Dunlap, UTSA (21st OT -Michigan)

Jaylon McClain-Sapp, Marshall (25th CB -Pittsburgh)
Ike Brown, FIU (33rd CB-New Orleans)

(02-22-2022 11:31 PM)Saint Greg Wrote:  Congrats to the CUSA players drafted on the first day of the USFL draft. It’s not surprising to see quite a few with Skip Holtz in Birmingham. They’re drafting by position group so that’s how I listed them. Tomorrow is WR, RB, TE, OG, C, DT, LB, S, K/P, LS.

Alex McGough, FIU (6th QB -Birmingham)
J’Mar Smith, Tech (11th QB-Birmingham)

Michael Rodriguez, Tech (10th OT - Philly)
O’Shea Dugas, Tech (15th OT - Birmingham)
Justice Powers, UAB (18th OT-Birmingham)
Joshua Dunlap, UTSA (21st OT -Michigan)

Jaylon McClain-Sapp, Marshall (25th CB -Pittsburgh)
Ike Brown, FIU (33rd CB-New Orleans)

Is it bad if I don't remember any of these players?

(02-23-2022 08:40 AM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  

(02-22-2022 11:31 PM)Saint Greg Wrote:  Congrats to the CUSA players drafted on the first day of the USFL draft. It’s not surprising to see quite a few with Skip Holtz in Birmingham. They’re drafting by position group so that’s how I listed them. Tomorrow is WR, RB, TE, OG, C, DT, LB, S, K/P, LS.

Alex McGough, FIU (6th QB -Birmingham)
J’Mar Smith, Tech (11th QB-Birmingham)

Michael Rodriguez, Tech (10th OT - Philly)
O’Shea Dugas, Tech (15th OT - Birmingham)
Justice Powers, UAB (18th OT-Birmingham)
Joshua Dunlap, UTSA (21st OT -Michigan)

Jaylon McClain-Sapp, Marshall (25th CB -Pittsburgh)
Ike Brown, FIU (33rd CB-New Orleans)

Is it bad if I don't remember any of these players?

Pretty sure they're all 2-5 years removed from college. I was thinking McGough might have gone all the way back to the Sun Belt days and wasn't far wrong, his freshman season was 2014.

From what I see the players are mostly FCS or low end FBS players. I was hoping to see more NFL practice squad type players that just need more playing time to develop to make them better NFL players

NFL practice squad players make four times as much money as USFL players.

(02-23-2022 10:28 AM)blazerwkr Wrote:  From what I see the players are mostly FCS or low end FBS players. I was hoping to see more NFL practice squad type players that just need more playing time to develop to make them better NFL players

These guys, not good enough to make an NFL roster, are going to get better by playing in a league full of guys not good enough to make an NFL roster?

I'm not saying it wouldn't happen at all, the CFL and XFL have put guys in the NFL before, but I wouldn't expect the USFL to do so with any more regularity than those two.

(02-23-2022 10:43 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(02-23-2022 10:28 AM)blazerwkr Wrote:  From what I see the players are mostly FCS or low end FBS players. I was hoping to see more NFL practice squad type players that just need more playing time to develop to make them better NFL players

These guys, not good enough to make an NFL roster, are going to get better by playing in a league full of guys not good enough to make an NFL roster?

Well, probably going to get better than they would selling insurance or something.

(02-23-2022 11:00 AM)inutech Wrote:  

(02-23-2022 10:43 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(02-23-2022 10:28 AM)blazerwkr Wrote:  From what I see the players are mostly FCS or low end FBS players. I was hoping to see more NFL practice squad type players that just need more playing time to develop to make them better NFL players

These guys, not good enough to make an NFL roster, are going to get better by playing in a league full of guys not good enough to make an NFL roster?

Well, probably going to get better than they would selling insurance or something.

Better than they'd get on a NFL practice squad?

(02-23-2022 11:32 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(02-23-2022 11:00 AM)inutech Wrote:  

(02-23-2022 10:43 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(02-23-2022 10:28 AM)blazerwkr Wrote:  From what I see the players are mostly FCS or low end FBS players. I was hoping to see more NFL practice squad type players that just need more playing time to develop to make them better NFL players

These guys, not good enough to make an NFL roster, are going to get better by playing in a league full of guys not good enough to make an NFL roster?

Well, probably going to get better than they would selling insurance or something.

Better than they'd get on a NFL practice squad?

I wouldn't think so.

(02-23-2022 11:34 AM)inutech Wrote:  

(02-23-2022 11:32 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(02-23-2022 11:00 AM)inutech Wrote:  

(02-23-2022 10:43 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(02-23-2022 10:28 AM)blazerwkr Wrote:  From what I see the players are mostly FCS or low end FBS players. I was hoping to see more NFL practice squad type players that just need more playing time to develop to make them better NFL players

These guys, not good enough to make an NFL roster, are going to get better by playing in a league full of guys not good enough to make an NFL roster?

Well, probably going to get better than they would selling insurance or something.

Better than they'd get on a NFL practice squad?

I wouldn't think so.

There are a lot more recent college football players working at fast food restaurants than available spots on NFL practice squads. The USFL is going to give some of them a way to keep doing the only thing they were ever good at. Kind of sad, but true.

(02-23-2022 01:52 PM)Nugget49er Wrote:  

(02-23-2022 11:34 AM)inutech Wrote:  

(02-23-2022 11:32 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(02-23-2022 11:00 AM)inutech Wrote:  

(02-23-2022 10:43 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  These guys, not good enough to make an NFL roster, are going to get better by playing in a league full of guys not good enough to make an NFL roster?

Well, probably going to get better than they would selling insurance or something.

Better than they'd get on a NFL practice squad?

I wouldn't think so.

There are a lot more recent college football players working at fast food restaurants than available spots on NFL practice squads. The USFL is going to give some of them a way to keep doing the only thing they were ever good at. Kind of sad, but true.

That's a different conversation. I was merely responding to the idea that the USFL is giving guys a chance to improve and get to the NFL.

If a second professional football league can ever truly establish itself for the long haul, it could eventually become that. But in the last century we've never gone more than about a decade without some upstart professional football league and exactly two have found success, the AFL which merged with the NFL more than fifty years ago after just a decade of independent operation and the Arena Football League which ran for a couple of decades, never came close to the NFL and only gave a few dozen guys a path to the NFL.

The USFL(or XFL for that matter) won't have to do much to become the third most successful upstart professional football league of the last century and there's a fair amount of room between the success of Arena Football and the AFL before merging with the NFL. If either one of the USFL or XFL can find that level of success(bigger than the Arena League, but not reaching merger levels) then we could see it become a legitimate feeder league(which an official partnership as a developmental league is probably the closest to another merger as we'd ever see) but until then, the USFL(and XFL) are largely what you just said, former college players holding on for a few more years, which is fine.

Finally heard of a player drafted. Former WKU WR Taywan Taylor was drafted in 16th round by the Stallions from New Orleans.

And the Day 2 guys.

Taywan Taylor, WKU (30th WR - New Orleans)
John Franklin, FAU (36th WR - Tampa)
Maruice Alexander, FIU (38th WR - Philly)

Andrew Soroh, FAU (7th S - Houston)

EJ Ejiya, UNT (3rd ILB - Pittsburgh)

Jalen Allen, Charlotte (17th OG - New Orleans)

Connor Christian, JSU (23rd DT, New Orleans)

BJ Emmons, FAU (1st RB - Tampa)

Jordan Moore, UTSA (7th OLB - Philly)

Nick Vogel, UAB (5th K - Houston)

Julian Allen, USM (9th TE - Houston)

(02-23-2022 08:40 AM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  

(02-22-2022 11:31 PM)Saint Greg Wrote:  Congrats to the CUSA players drafted on the first day of the USFL draft. It’s not surprising to see quite a few with Skip Holtz in Birmingham. They’re drafting by position group so that’s how I listed them. Tomorrow is WR, RB, TE, OG, C, DT, LB, S, K/P, LS.

Alex McGough, FIU (6th QB -Birmingham)
J’Mar Smith, Tech (11th QB-Birmingham)

Michael Rodriguez, Tech (10th OT - Philly)
O’Shea Dugas, Tech (15th OT - Birmingham)
Justice Powers, UAB (18th OT-Birmingham)
Joshua Dunlap, UTSA (21st OT -Michigan)

Jaylon McClain-Sapp, Marshall (25th CB -Pittsburgh)
Ike Brown, FIU (33rd CB-New Orleans)

Is it bad if I don't remember any of these players?

I'd say surprising that you don't at least know the QBs since they were 3 and 4 year starters in our conference.

Teams reportedly will now be allowed to sign 3-5 "local interest players" and there is a supplemental draft still to come as well.