Cowboys could look to USFL for help at kicker
When it comes to developmental leagues for professional sports, the NFL is behind the ball.
Aside from college football, there are really no other avenues to develop talent before bringing up a player to the roster.
Major League Baseball has AAA and AA teams they refer to as the farming system.
The NBA has summer leagues that allow them to evaluate if a player is talented enough to be called up to their team.
You very often see diamonds in the rough come out of the developmental leagues for baseball and basketball.
However, for the NFL it just doesn’t work the same way.
There have been attempts to start a developmental league, but football is such a physically demanding sport.
Usually the players who can make it in the NFL weed themselves out in college.
They get selected in the draft, or are signed as undrafted free agents immediately after the draft takes place.
The USFL (United State Football League) is the latest of these developmental leagues to try their hand.
It was originally founded in 1982, but failed by 1986.
Since then, other leagues like the XFL and AAF had moderate success, but eventually fizzled out due to lack of viewership.
Could the Cowboys look to the USFL to fill a roster spot before training camp?
