2001 XFL Draft
Rnd Pick # XFL team Player Pos College
1 1 Los Angeles Xtreme Scott Milanovich QB Maryland
1 2 Birmingham Thunderbolts Casey Weldon QB Florida State
1 3 Memphis Maniax Marcus Crandell QB East Carolina
1 4 Orlando Rage Jeff Brohm QB Louisville
1 5 Las Vegas Outlaws Chuck Clements QB Houston
1 6 San Francisco Demons Vaughn Dunbar RB Indiana
1 7 New York/New Jersey Hitmen Charles Puleri QB New Mexico State
1 8 Chicago Enforcers John Avery RB Ole Miss
2 9 Chicago Enforcers Paul Failla QB Indiana ( PA )
2 10 New York/New Jersey Hitmen Jermaine Smith DT Georgia
2 11 San Francisco Demons Scott Adams OT Georgia
2 12 Las Vegas Outlaws Antonio Edwards DE Valdosta
2 13 Orlando Rage Dan Collins G Boston College
2 14 Memphis Maniax Darick Holmes RB Portland State
2 15 Birmingham Thunderbolts Lies , Michael Michael Lies G Kansas
2 16 Los Angeles Xtreme Steve Russ LB Air Force
3 17 Los Angeles Xtreme West , Derek Derek West OT Colorado
3 18 Birmingham Thunderbolts Henry Taylor DT South Carolina
3 19 Memphis Maniax Mike Sheldon OT Grand Valley State
3 20 Orlando Rage Jonathan Brown DE Tennessee
Player selections
This section is missing information about rounds 29-59 and supplemental picks . Please expand the section to include this information . Further details may exist on the talk page . ( October 2019 )
The 2001 XFL Draft was the only draft for the first-iteration XFL football league. The draft took place over a three-day time period from October 28 to October 30, 2000, during which time a total of 475 players were selected by the league's 8 teams from a pool of approximately 1,600 or so eligible players. The draft consisted of 59 rounds - 10 rounds taking place on October 28, 15 rounds on October 29, and 34 rounds on October 30. The draft was followed by a supplemental draft on December 29, 2000, during which 65 additional players were selected in an effort to completely fill out team rosters. Most eligible players came from either the CFL, the Arena Football League, NFL Europe, retired NFL players, or previous college players who had gone undrafted by the NFL but had not yet signed with another league. The XFL draft took place in order for teams to be ready to begin league play when the season kicked off on February 3, 2001.