Get your mock XFL drafts ready. On Tuesday Oct. 15 and Wednesday Oct. 16, the XFL will hold its first ever draft, allowing its eight teams to fill out its 71-man rosters.
Roughly 1,000 players are up for grabs and the draft pool will be formally unfurled on Friday. Landry Jones, and other quarterbacks, will not be a part of the general draft. Instead, one QB will be assigned to each club. After that, it sounds like backup QBs will be drafted by teams, though that’s not immediately clear from the XFL’s press release.
The draft will begin with the starting QB assignment, then unfold in five phases: (1) skill-position players; (2) offensive linemen; (3) defensive front seven; (4) defensive backs; and (5) open draft, for all positions and specialists. Ten players will be chosen in phases 1-4 and phase 5 will continue until all rosters are filled.
Teams will have just 90 seconds to make their picks, which should help move things along. The XFL’s inaugural season will commence in February 2020, with teams in Dallas, Houston, D.C., Tampa, Seattle, L.A., New York, and St. Louis.
“The draft will begin with the starting QB assignment”
What is the methodology behind this?
QB communism
think of it as a WWE pay per view. it has to be more than just a draft…
…each QB is shot out of a cannon. The team logo he lands on, gets him.
Something like that?
That’s awesome
I’d pay to watch that.
I think it’s dumb it’s essentially a way for them to help to curve the way a team is ran. and to give a team a qb the XFL wants rather the the team wants . pretty much if u get a qb that only cares for themselves or has issues ur screwed and u get pelted when u start the back whom u actually drafted
This isn’t even the correct XFL logo.
Landry Jones 63.9 completion percentage is better than Zach’s accuracy rate.
The stench of fail was overpowering the moment USFL 3.0 was announced
I wonder if XFL’s referees will rig games with phantom penalty calls the same way the NFL refs do?
After watching some AAF earlier this year, I think I’ll pass. No need to follow and then watch yet another league fail.
Tim Tebow will be the first selection…..
That would be the smartest thing the XFL could do. Get God on their side.
18 more roster spots than the NFL so presumably those players will do double duty as team cheerleaders.
Send the most marketable player (the QBs) to markets they’ve already got traction or to coaches they fit schematically. Smart both financially and for the quality of the product. Landry Jones the former Oklahoma Sooner ends up in Dallas?