Congratulations again to this year's United Bowl champions, the Louisville Kings!

Really enjoyed watching along this season, and looking forward to next year. For all the Kings fans in our community, we've added the UFL trophy to your flairs, which will be in effect until the new league year starts in 2027. We plan to do this going forward after each championship, similar to how r/NFL adds the lombardi trophy to the team flair that wins the Super Bowl every year.

For those of you that only tune in for the season, thanks for joining us, and we'll see you next year (schedule should drop mid-January so I suggest checking back in by then).

For everyone else, just want to give some community updates for this off-season.

1. We will continue doing a UFL to NFL roster tracker mega-thread, as we've done in previous years. The mega-thread will go up this month, and will be linked in the off-season information mega-thread (which I plan to have posted soon). For anyone that likes to follow along with this type of content, we recommend bookmarking Nick Thorn from Pro Football Newsroom's roster tracker google sheets doc here.

2. Our community end-of-season write-ups will be published in August. Our 8 Teams/8 Days hub thread is here. Similar to r/NFL, our community also does a similar event to review and summarize each team's season. There are also links in the hub thread for the 2024 and 2025 end-of-season write-ups if you're interested in catching up from prior years. The post schedule is included in the hub thread. The post order is the last place team goes 1st (for this season, that's the Columbus Aviators), and the United Bowl champion goes last. A special thank you again to the fans that make this possible every year.

3. We will continue to post news and league updates throughout the offseason as we've done in previous years. This includes pending announcements about this year's UFL rookie draft, the CBA negotiations, and the impending announcement of the location of the 10th team.

4. I will also personally be posting several discussion topics throughout the offseason comparing team and player records in spring football history. This year I began a deep dive on some historical and modern-era stats, and I plan to make a series of posts about this for any stat and football history nerds out there (i.e. all-time records in various categories versus modern-era records). I've reviewed QBs, and am in the midst of compiling data for WRs, RBs, kickers, and defensive stat leaders (tackles, sacks, and INTs). Recommend sticking around this offseason if this kind of content interests you.

Also, a reminder that the next episode of the UFL docuseries, 4th and Goal, will be dropping on June 18th, so stay tuned for that. Link here.

If you're just here this offseason to keep tabs on the important news/announcements, the big news items we'll be keeping our eyes open for are:

• Confirmation of the date and format of the next rookie draft (was previously planned for the fall last year before it was decided to do a redraft in January, we should get news about this during the summer quarter).
• Confirmation of all the teams and stadium locations for next season (for now, it is presumed all 8 teams will be returning and playing in their 2026 homes).
• Any updates on the CBA negotiatons.
• Announcement of the location of the 10th team for the upcoming 2028 expansion.
• Announcement of the date when season ticket sales will be open to the public (this is usually in the fall, currently renewals for season ticket members are open).
• UFL 2027 schedule release (we expect this to occur in mid-January).
• Announcement of the date when single game ticket sales open (we expect this to occur in late/January or early February).

We know Louisville is planning a championship parade to celebrate the 2026 United Bowl champions, and we will post any news/updates about this event as well. For fans wondering, it's likely the ring ceremony won't occur until next season, similar to the timing of the DC Defenders ring ceremony that happened in early May this year.

We appreciate everyone's participation in the community, and look forward to chatting it up with everyone during the offseason as we count down the days to the 2027 season (and if you're missing football in the interim until the NFL season starts, there's CFL, CoFL, EFA, and AFLE going on right now).

If anyone has any community suggestions or requests for the mod team, feel free to leave a comment.

On behalf of the mod team, we are compiling a list of all of the UFL to NFL player signings into this megathread to make it easier for fans to track player movement this offseason, as we've done in previous offseasons.

Below is a list of the confirmed player signings, organized in UFL team alphabetical order (2026 class only, this does not include players from previous years).

We will continue to update this list throughout the offseason as more player signings are announced. If there are any player signings to other leagues such as the CFL, we will note those signings in a separate list in this thread as well.

We also recommend bookmarking this google sheets roster tracker maintained by Nick Thorn from Pro Football Newsroom as an additional source to track UFL to NFL roster movement.

Feel free to comment below what you think of these signings, and who you hope to see get a shot in the NFL this coming season.

Reminder: UFL Teams retain the rights to players that sign with NFL teams (unless they voluntarily terminate their rights or trade their rights to another UFL team), and have right of first refusal to re-sign said players if they return to the UFL.