Connor Cook drafted into the XFL with second overall pick

Tim Heitman-USA TODAY SportsConnor Cook, one of the best quarterbacks in Michigan State Spartans history and leader of the team during its most successful stretch in recent history, is headed to the XFL.

The former Oakland Raiders QB was drafted by the Houston Roughnecks in the league’s “inaugural” season draft with the second overall pick in the skill position section of the draft. If that sentence doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, that’s because it’s the XFL, and of course.

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