Los Angeles Chargers GM sees potential for AAF as developmental league for NFL

COSTA MESA, Calif. — Count Los Angeles Chargers general manager Tom Telesco as a lover of the upstart Alliance of American Football.

Telesco stated he viewed the league’s slate of video games over the weekend with his two sons and believes the AAF could perhaps be a developmental league for the NFL.

Telesco stated he spoke with his former mentor, AAF co-founder Bill Polian, final 12 months about what Telesco would like to see in a developmental league, and that he will deliver representatives from the Chargers’ pro personnel division to scout AAF video games.

“It is a great notion,” Telesco stated. “It has the opportunity to be a nice enhance to the NFL. It is a great place for a developmental league for players, but even apart from that — coaches and front place of work, officiating, athletic trainers and online video machines people, public relations — all of that. So I consider it’s a great area the place people can produce in every division of football operations. Just about every division that touches a football workforce can get some actual-lifestyle knowledge.”

Telesco previously culled two players from AAF rosters at the close of the 2018 year for the duration of his team’s postseason operate, securing kicker Nick Rose as a kickoff expert and also signing linebacker Tyrone Holmes to his team’s exercise squad.

Several former Chargers are on AAF rosters, like kickers Nick Novak, Younghoe Koo and Rose.

Telesco stated he’ll have scouts from his pro personnel division at the activity, like the San Diego Fleet’s dwelling opener versus the Atlanta Legends on Sunday.

“With San Diego close and Arizona quite close, it will be quite effortless for us [to scout],” Telesco stated. “It is a area the place young fellas can go play.

“No. 1, you get a possibility to go play football and get paid for it, so that is nice. No. 2, you get great coaching. And No. 3, you get a possibility to set tape with each other so the NFL can examine you again. Most of these fellas we’ve noticed prior to, but it presents them a possibility to produce and learn, get superior at their craft and get it on tape.”