There is an upstart professional football league called Major League Football, and its inaugural player draft began on Wednesday. In the first round of the eight-team draft, several former college stars were selected, including former Arkansas wide receiver Joe Adams with the No. 1 overall pick. A pair of formerly troubled quarterbacks, Stephen Garcia (South Carolina) and Casey Pachall (TCU), were also selected.

MLFB has eight franchises but they don't appear to be attached to any cities at the moment. The teams will be a single entity controlled by MLFB, similar to what MLS does, targeting markets that don't have NFL or MLB franchises. Each team will have a 10-game regular season, spanning April to July, with a spring 2016 launch planned.

Garcia and Adams were both four-star prospects in the 247Sports Composite. Adams was the No. 200 overall prospect in the class of 2008. Garcia was No. 68 overall in the class of 2007. The Carolina Panthers took Adams with the No. 104 overall pick in the 2012 NFL Draft. Garcia and Pachall went undrafted, each playing briefly in the Canadian Football League.