A former UK football player could find a home in the XFL

The XFL is back! Will former UK football player, Boom Williams, find his way onto an XFL roster?

Admit it, you’re already excited. World Wrestling Entertainment chariman, Vince McMahon, is bringing back the XFL. McMahon promised a different version this go-around. The WWE founder says there will be less gimmicks and this time he will be the sole owner of the entire league. Stanley ‘Boom’ Williams would be the perfect player for McMahon’s new XFL.

With a name like Boom, which we can all assume we’d see on the back of his jersey, Williams would make a great fit in the XFL. Williams left the UK football program last season after a productive junior year. Williams ran for nearly 1,200 yards and 7 touchdowns. For his career at Kentucky, Williams compiled 2,513 yards and 18 touchdowns.

Boom went undrafted and found his way onto the Cincinnati Bengals during the preseason. The Bengals waived Williams before the start of the 2017 regular season. He later latched on with the Denver Broncos, but never saw the field.

The XFL failed miserably back in 2001, but McMahon seems to have a well-thought out plan of how to make this version work. The NFL has lost viewership, and now is as good a time as any to give this another shot. McMahon shared his thoughts with ESPN as to why he wanted to try his hand with professional football once more:

"“I wanted to do this since the day we stopped the other one,” McMahon told ESPN in an exclusive interview. “A chance to do it with no partners, strictly funded by me, which would allow me to look in the mirror and say, ‘You were the one who screwed this up,’ or ‘You made this thing a success.'”"

Williams is a bit undersized at 5’9″, 196 pounds, but he could find a home in the XFL. The XFL obviously will lack some of the cache, marketing and star-power of the NFL. However, there are plenty of people who are fed up with the NFL and enough former players or fringe college stars who could make the league work. Former SEC quarterbacks Johnny Maziel and Tim Tebow come to mind.