Shed's Search Continues

The AAF announced their 52-man rosters across their 8 team league yesterday. It was a close call, but unfortunately former D3football.com and Hobart College All-American WR Brandon Shed '18 wasn't one of the players selected.

The San Antonio Commanders, the team that Shed was invited to compete in camp by, ultimately elected to stick with a  primarily Texas and Midwest-only WR corps. In fact, across the entire AAF, only 3 of the 416 available roster spots went to former D3FB players (which I am honestly surprised by, but maybe shouldn't be given the NFL's bias against small school players in general).

These players are:

• DB Dwayne Hollis of NC Wesleyan to the Atlanta Legends
• WR Donteea Dye from Heidelberg (OH, same conference as Mount Union) - a former teammate of Ali Marpet '15 on the Buccaneers - by the Orlando Apollos
• DE Jake Payne of Shenandoah (VA), who was coached by Scott Yoder '01, by the Birmingham Iron

According to local San Antonio blog 210football.com, former Syracuse and Dallas Cowboy great, now GM of the Commanders, Daryl Johnston said "some of the toughest roster decisions were at receiver."

While Brandon's dream of playing professional football remains temporarily on hold, it's possible he could be claimed by another AAF team at any point. After close calls in Minneapolis (with the Vikings) and most recently with San Antonio, the third time should be the charm for one of our favorite Statesmen.

Keep grinding Brandon!

Thanks for reading and go 'Bart!