A new professional football league is ready to take the field in July of 2018. The Pacific Pro League will feature players ages 18-22 who are not NFL Eligible and will consist of four teams playing an 8-game schedule according to ESPN.com. It is intended to be a developmental league for players who might not otherwise have an opportunity to reach the NFL. However, the league is not sanctioned by the NFL who plans to kickoff a spring developmental league in April 2017.
The NFL has yet to make an official comment on the new league but normally frowns upon attempts to compete with it’s pro-football monopoly.