Former Penn State star Justin King to manage football operations for XFL

[ramsplaya16]

If the XFL is to succeed, much of the burden rests upon the shoulders of former Penn State two-way star Justin King.

King has been hired as the fledgling league’s manager of football operations, an XFL spokesman confirmed to PennLive on Thursday. He spent the past two seasons as an assistant recruiting coordinator at Penn State.

King will report to former Buffalo Bills GM Doug Whaley, the XFL’s vice president for football operations.

While Whaley and league commissioner Oliver Luck will map the vision for XFL 2.0, King will be charged with making that vision come to life.

A Pittsburgh native and a WPIAL Hall of Famer, King was a 5-star recruit in Penn State’s 2005 class. He played wide receiver as a true freshman on a Nittany Lions team that went 11-1, won the Big Ten and the Orange Bowl and finished No. 3 in both polls, tied with the 1991 season as the program’s highest finish since winning the 1986 national championship.

He played cornerback for his final two seasons, earning an All-Big Ten nod in 2007, before becoming a fourth-round pick of the St. Louis Rams and crafting a six-year career with the Rams, Indianapolis Colts and Pittsburgh Steelers.

Along with fellow 2005 signee Derrick Williams, King was one of the first two 5-star recruits to sign with Penn State during the modern era of recruiting.

The XFL is scheduled to begin play on Feb. 8, 2020.


Good for him for finding something after football, hopefully he is much better at it then he was for us. Lol.

 

[Merlin]

What sucks for the XFL is the AAF is beating them to the punch in their positioning as a dev league for the NFL. They are gonna have a hard time of it I think.

 

[jrry32]

Terrible, terrible CB. Toast. But hopefully, he's good at this. More football is never a bad thing.

 

[swmizzou83]

What sucks for the XFL is the AAF is beating them to the punch in their positioning as a dev league for the NFL. They are gonna have a hard time of it I think.

Agreed. I feel like the XFL will be DOA.

 

[thirteen28]

 

[Memento]

For the XFL's sake, I hope King is better at his new job than he was at his old one.

 

[Mister Sin]

I think the XFL is handling things the right way from what I’ve read. This isn’t going to be a gimmick like last time. I can see a potential merger of the two. I like the thought of each team having its own B-Squad to pull from. I don’t like the thought of players intermingling being up for grabs by anyone. It should be like baseball for me.

 

[Tano]

For the XFL's sake, I hope King is better at his new job than he was at his old one.

That name still gives me nightmares of him being beaten over and over again.

 

[Corbin]

Tory Smith should be washing Kings car and throwing his garbage the rest of his life for King extending his playing life and getting new contracts!
Smh

 

[JonRam99]

Good for him. But still cringing at his play w/ the Rams. Unbelievable he played for us for 5 years -- how desperate were we, really??

 

[nighttrain]

Good for him. But still cringing at his play w/ the Rams. Unbelievable he played for us for 5 years -- how desperate were we, really??

i'm still havin nightmares

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