The revived Spokane Shock of the Indoor Football League announced the signing of former Alabama quarterback Blake Sims on Monday night.

Spokane is scheduled to kick off its 14-game regular season on March 22 against the Bismarck Bucks.

The Shock started as an af2 team in 2006. The team moved up to the Arena Football League in 2010 and played in that league through the 2015 season. Spokane switched to the IFL for the 2016 and 2017 seasons under the nickname Empire, but the franchise had been dormant the past two IFL campaigns.

Former NFL defensive lineman Sam Adams has relaunched the team as the Shock. The IFL, which played its first season in 2009, has 13 teams for the 2020 season, with all the franchises west of the Mississippi River except the Green Bay Blizzard and Quad City Steamwheelers.

The other quarterbacks on the Shock’s roster are former Auburn standout Jeremy Johnson and Charles McCullum, the IFL MVP for 2017 and 2018, when he played for the Wichita Nighthawks.

Sims set Crimson Tide single-season records for total offense and passing yards in the 2014 season.

He spent time on the rosters of the Toronto Argonauts and the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the Canadian Football League and was a member of the practice squads of the Atlanta Falcons and Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the NFL. Last year, Sims was with the Birmingham Iron of the Alliance of American Football, but he went on injured reserve three games into the season on Feb. 27.

Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.