Why did so many players, despite potential pitfalls, convene to run drills and chase down a faint hope? It's simple. “It's still football, you know?” Rahim Moore said. “There's a risk in everything you do. But if you love something, man, just go do it.”
“It is easy to be skeptical, because it's just now getting started,” Davis, 33, said. “You're fighting the big giant — the NFL.”
An All-American with the Bruins who was drafted in the second round by the Denver Broncos in 2011, Moore has been burned by non-NFL pro football before. He was a victim of the AAF’s sudden failure earlier this year, competing for the Arizona Hotshots — he played for his former UCLA coach, Rick Neuheisel — before the cash-strapped league folded with two weeks left in the regular season.
Defensive back Rahim Moore, then playing for the Cleveland Browns, looks on during a preseason game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2016. Covered in XFL-branded gear seemingly pulled straight from the box, Luck couldn’t help but see himself in the group of players trying out for his league Friday. Long before his distinguished career as a sports administrator and executive — president of the Houston Dynamos of MLS, athletic director at West Virginia and executive vice president for regulatory affairs with the NCAA — the Cleveland native was a backup quarterback in the NFL.
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