Arizona Hotshots (coached by Rick Neuheisel)
Atlanta Legends (Brad Childress)
Birmingham Iron (Tim Lewis)
Memphis Express (Mike Singletary)
Orlando Apollos (Steve Spurrier)
Salt Lake Stallions (Dennis Erickson)
San Antonio Express (Mike Riley)
San Diego Fleet (Mike Martz).
The league’s “Protect or Pick” draft approach begins with a round in which teams have the option of claiming (“protecting”) a player for whom that team had first dibs based on geographic proximity. The alternative is to “pick” a player from another region if, say, a competitor’s territory had a surplus of talent or a prospect more specifically aligned with a coach’s style of play. Regardless of the way a team chooses to go, each of the 8 teams will complete the first round with a QB to call its own.
If a team opts to pick instead of protect, it stays in this order after all who’ve protected voice those decisions. The draft order was determined with each team pulling a number from a helmet. The second, third and fourth rounds have no protect element, so it’s purely picking after Round 1.
The order goes as listed above in Round 2. It reverses in Round 3, then snakes back in the fourth round.
Protect:
San Diego Fleet protects: Josh Johnson
Atlanta Legends protects: Aaron Murray
Memphis Express protects: Troy Cook
San Antonio Commanders protects: Dustin Vaughan
Birmingham Iron, Arizona Hotshots, Orlando Apollos, and Salt Lake Stallions elected to pick.
Pick:
Birmingham Iron picks: Luis Perez
Arizona Hotshots picks: Trevor Knight
Orlando Apollos picks: Garrett Gilbert
Salt Lake Stallions picks: Josh Woodrum
ROUND 2:
San Diego Fleet picks: Mike Bercovici
Birmingham Iron picks: Blake Sims
Arizona Hotshots picks: John Wolford
Orlando Apollos picks: Stephen Morris
Atlanta Legends picks: Matt Simms
Salt Lake Stallions picks: B.J. Daniels
Memphis Express picks: Christian Hackenberg
San Antonio Commanders picks: Marquise Williams
ROUND 3:
San Antonio Commanders picks: Logan Woodside
Memphis Express picks: Brandon Silvers
Salt Lake Stallions picks: Austin Allen
Atlanta Legends picks: Peter Pujals
Orlando Apollos picks: Austin Appleby
Arizona Hotshots picks: Quinn McQueary
Birmingham Iron picks: Scott Tolzien
San Diego Fleet picks: Philip Nelson
ROUND 4:
San Antonio Commanders picks: Dalton Sturm
Memphis Express picks: Zach Mettenberger
Salt Lake Stallions picks: Matt Linehan
Atlanta Legends picks: Justin Holman
Orlando Apollos picks: Kevin Anderson
Arizona Hotshots picks: Jack Heneghan
Birmingham Iron picks: Alek Torgersen
San Diego Fleet picks: Alex Ross
The Alliance of American Football will kick off its inaugural season next month, but one of the league’s teams has made a coaching change ahead of its first game.
The Atlanta Legends announced on Wednesday that Brad Childress has stepped down before coaching his first game for the team. No reason was given for the former Vikings head coach’s decision to move on at this point.
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Brad Childress could be one step away from returning to the NFL. The Browns are reportedly down to Kevin Stefanski and Freddie Kitchens in their head coaching search, and if they pick Stefanski, Childress could wind up on Cleveland’s staff, Mary Kay Cabot of Cleveland.com hears.
Childress and Stefanski have history, dating back to when the two first met in 2005. Childress was also the Browns’ offensive coordinator in 2012 and worked under GM John Dorsey from 2013-16 when he was running the Chiefs. There are significant ties all around, so Stefanski could be a natural fit as the next OC or a different type of assistant if Stefanski is the pick.
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