On April 9th, former Tulane WR, Yulkeith Brown, signed with the Columbus Aviators as a free agent. The former Greenie hauled in a total of 973-yards and 7 TD’s across his college career. With 861-yards and 6 touchdowns coming as a Greenie, and the rest came from his first year of college ball at Texas A&M.
The Miami native played just three years of college football, with his last year being played in 2024. Coming out of high school though, the receiver was a four-star recruit as an athlete. Ranking as the 43rd best player in Florida, and the 14th ranked athlete in the nation.
Joining the Expansion
The Aviators are a brand new expansion team in the newly formed league, the UFL. Before it was the UFL, there were two separate smaller football organizations, the United States Football League and the XFL. The XFL was founded in 2018 by former WWE boss, Vince McMahon, but the organization quickly found rough waters once the Covid-19 pandemic hit in 2020.
This pandemic would provide permanent effects to the XFL as a whole, as McMahon would sell the league to former WWE-Superstar Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson and Dany Garcia for $15 million. The league would return to play in 2023, before ultimately announcing its unification with the USFL on September 28th…