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The 2024 UFL Super Draft, the second phase of the newly-formed league’s dispersal draft, took place Monday. Another former Alabama football player was selected, making six total through the draft’s two parts.
Bo Scarbrough played three years as a running back for the Crimson Tide under Nick Saban from 2015-17, winning national championship rings in 2015 and 2017. Scarbrough was selected in round seven of the UFL Super Draft by the Birmingham Stallions, the same team where he spent the 2022 and 2023 USFL seasons.
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A native of Eutaw, Alabama, and a product of Tuscaloosa County High School, Scarbrough spent his first year at Alabama backing up eventual Heisman Trophy winner Derrick Henry. He enjoyed a breakout sophomore season in 2016, including a 180-yard rushing performance against Washington in the Peach Bowl to help clinch Alabama a spot in the national championship game. That 180-yard mark is still an Alabama bowl game record for rushing yards.
Former Northridge High School and University of Alabama running back Bo Scarbrough scores a clutch touchdown on a 28-yard run in the USFL’s Birmingham Stallions’ May 21 win against Michigan.
Scarbrough was a seventh-round pick by the Dallas Cowboys in 2018, though his only NFL action came in 2019 with the Detroit Lions. He joined the Stallions midway through the USFL’s inaugural season in 2022 and helped them win the first USFL championship with 13 carries for 135 yards and a touchdown in the final. He returned to the Stallions in 2023 but spent the season on injured reserve and was not protected by the team in the first phase of the UFL’s dispersal draft.
The first phase of the draft took place on Jan….
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Author : The Tuscaloosa News
Publish date : 2024-01-15 21:42:14
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