New Kind of Football Team Arising

A league for undrafted rookies to fall back on after final NFL roster cuts and to keep in football shape, physically and mentally.

NFL owners, awash in billions of dollars of revenue, don’t want to finance a developmental league because it generates cost, not revenue.

An NFL developmental league needed a new business model.

Coming this fall: Woods, 40, is the founder and creator of the FXFL the Fall Experimental Football League.

I’ve looked closely at the NBA Developmental League and at Minor League Baseball.

The future: In April, sports lawyer and agent Donald Yee speculated in an essay in the Washington Post about college football in the Year 2020 morphing into a lucrative professional developmental league in which college-age players share in the billions of dollars of revenue generated by their games.

Woods’ league would be a scaled-down version of those post-collegiate players, mostly undrafted but also drafted ones, who work the six weeks of NFL training camp and then are released.

Because of injury attrition, most NFL teams come looking for players in the second half of the NFL season.

That’s why Woods wants the FXFL season to start in September and end in November to feed the NFL need for players late in its season.

Woods said FXFL teams will have rosters of 40 players and coaching staffs will consist of a head coach and six assistants.