We’ll emerge from our long, six-day freeze without professional football this weekend to find the Alliance of American Football kicking off on CBS. They’re the first of three leagues that are launching between now and 2020 with the hopes of being all at once a viable spring alternative to the NFL, a potential feeder league, and a testing ground for new rules and technologies.
We caught up with Steelers great Hines Ward, currently the AAF’s head of football development, to get his thoughts on whether there is an unheard of name that could emerge into the NFL orbit from this AAF season, or if he thinks any former NFL players in the league might get a second chance.