USFL Player Selection Meeting To Be Held February 22-23

The USFL is a new professional spring football league that kicks off it's inaugural season April 15th 2022. This league isn't affiliated with the old United States Football League from back in the 1980's.

Currently, we know very little about this new league, but it was just reported that a player selection meeting will be held from 2/22/22 to 2/23/22. On Tuesday, a memo was sent to all NFLPA contract advisors that in order for players to be eligible for the USFL, they will have to sign a contract with the league before the selection meeting. The memo reads:

The United States Football League (“USFL”) is a new professional football league that will launch in April of 2022. Training camps for the 2022 season will begin on Monday, March 21st. Eight teams will take part in a ten-week regular season that concludes on Sunday, June 19th followed by two weeks of playoffs.

All games will be aired on Fox, NBC, or their respective affiliates.

Each team will carry a 38-man active roster and 7-man practice squad. Players will be employees of the USFL and receive base compensation as well as be eligible for win bonuses.

To be eligible to sign with the USFL, an individual must have graduated from high school in 2020 or an earlier year.

A player selection meeting will be held February 22-23, 2022. To be eligible for selection, players are required to sign a contract with the league beforehand. For consideration, visit (web site omitted) where you will be asked to provide relevant information including full name, birthdate, college, links to game film and, if applicable, NFL active roster or practice squad experience.

The USFL is a new professional football league, and it is not associated or affiliated with the USFL of the 1980s or its owners.

Players will get "base compensation" and will be able to get "win bonuses" along with these contracts. The USFL's preseason starts March 1st, training camp starts on March 21, and kickoff is slated to be on April 15th.

This "player selection meeting" is rumored to be the same thing as the USFL draft, just with a different name. Maybe they aren't calling it a draft so that we can lower our expectations? Maybe they just want to be different? We aren't sure, but we are very excited to finally see the players that make up the USFL.