USFL Draft: Three players with Patriots ties selected on Day 1 originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston
The USFL is back, and New England Patriots fans may recognize a few familiar faces when the league reboots this spring.
The revamped United States Football League held the first 12 rounds of its 35-round inaugural draft Tuesday night, as the league’s eight teams began filling out their rosters.
Unlike the traditional NFL Draft, this draft followed a snake format and went position-by-position for each round, so only quarterbacks were selected in Round 1, only edge rushers and defensive ends in Rounds 2 through 4, and so on.
A pair of talented college quarterbacks went No. 1 and No. 2 overall: Michigan’s Shea Patterson to the Michigan Panthers and Mississippi’s Jordan Ta’amu to the Tampa Bay Bandits.
Day 1 also saw three former Patriots players go off the board. Here’s a quick rundown:
De’Vante Bausby, CB (Round 8 – New Jersey Generals)
Bausby joined the Patriots’ practice squad in…