The XFL regular season ended midway through May and the USFL regular season ended midway through June.
Yet for some players from the ranks of spring professional football, there wasn’t much of an offseason this summer. There were calls from NFL teams in the heat of training camp instead.
Count the New England Patriots among the stops on the circuit.
The workouts at Gillette Stadium ramped up in July. And since the calendar turned to August, former Birmingham Stallions running back C.J. Marable, former New Jersey Generals offensive lineman Micah Vanterpool and former St.