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XFL 2020: As the relaunch nears, answers to your burning questions

We’re less than seven months away from the relaunch of Vince McMahon’s XFL. Now that the league has wrapped up its Summer Showcase workouts, business is about to pick up. Soon we’ll learn the team names, and not long after that rosters will start taking shape. Have questions? We have the answers.

How will the XFL be different from the NFL?

When McMahon asked XFL commissioner Oliver Luck to reimagine the game of football, Luck considered making radical changes, including allowing offensive linemen to catch passes, widening the field and reducing the number of players on the field to 10 on each team.