Connor Cook has been selected 2nd overall in the skill player portion of the XFL draft and it is a very confusing process.
Cook was selected by the Houston Roughnecks. Roughneck, for those unfamiliar, is a general term used for a hard laborer, but is most commonly used to refer to the workers on a drilling rig. So that’s interesting.
Here’s why this is confusing: An hour before the skill player portion of the draft, the entire XFL had a “tier one QB” draft in which each team selected their, in theory, starting quarterback for the season. Houston took former Temple QB Phillip Walker. One would think that after securing a starting quarterback, the pertinent move would be to start drafting some pass catchers and ball carriers. That’s what almost the entire league did, but not Houston. I guess they wanted to really make sure they had quarterback locked down? This feels like a 4D chess moment.
Also, the XFL has like nine drafts. There was the QB1 draft. There’s the skill player draft, the o-line draft, the front 7 draft, the defensive backs draft and then it finishes off with the open draft. This is all so strange and I kind of love it.
Either way, Connor Cook is in the XFL and is (maybe?) going to be competing for a starting quarterback job.
We’ll put up some other posts throughout the day as more Michigan State players are drafted.
