Former Wyoming players hope to parlay brief XFL stints into NFL opportunities
(WorldNews Sport)

LARAMIE — Marqueston Huff is still holding out hope that he`ll don an NFL uniform again. A handful of times earlier this year, Huff, who played his college ball at Wyoming, wore an XFL uniform for the Houston Roughnecks. Former Cowboys Lucas Wacha and Robert Priester did the same in Tampa, Florida, for the Tampa Bay Vipers. In all, four former UW players were associated with the return of the XFL, the professional football league created by wrestling executive Vince McMahon that infamously bottomed out following its debut season in 2001. But Huff, Wacha and Priester were the only ones that actually played this season. Tanner Gentry, an all-Mountain West receiver during his time at Wyoming...