The United States Football League, dormant since its infamous bankruptcy in 1985, has been rekindled, bringing with it the promise of a competitive football league for spring play, following in the footsteps of the Alliance of American Football (2019,) the second edition of the XFL (2020) and The Spring League (2021.)
The USFL, which will conduct its bubble season in Birmingham, Alabama, is currently taking advantage of the XFL’s transitional hiatus and launching their season next month, with the selection of players set to take place tonight starting at 7 p.m. Eastern time.
The draft process will be fairly unique; the Michigan Panthers won the draft lottery, giving them the first selection of quarterbacks in the positional-based draft, but they will not be choosing at #1 in every subsequent round.