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Three former Packers named to Inaugural All-UFL team

Three former Packers — Jace Sternberger, Zack Johnson and Chris Odom — made the UFL’s Inaugural All-UFL team.

The Green Bay Packers were well-represented on the Inaugural All-UFL team. Three former Packers were honored on the all-league list for the 2024 season: tight end Jace Sternberger, offensive guard Zack Johnson and edge rusher Chris Odom.

Sternberger, a third-round pick of the Packers in 2019, caught 25 passes for 454 yards and four scores across 10 games for the Birmingham Stallions. He averaged 18.2 yards per catch, the second-highest average for a player with 10 or more catches, and his 454 receiving yards were the sixth-most among all UFL players.

Johnson went undrafted out of North Dakota State before spending time with the Packers during the 2020 and 2021 seasons. Behind Johnson, the Stallions ranked first in the UFL in rushing yards, rushing average, total offense and scoring offense.

Odom produced eight tackles for loss and 5.0 sacks for the Houston Roughnecks. He ranked fourth in the UFL in tackles for loss and tied for sixth in sacks. Odom, an undrafted free agent, spent the 2017 season with the Packers.

Last year, Sternberger was named to the All-USFL team. In 2022, Odom was the USFL’s Defensive Player of the Year. The XFL and USFL combined to create the UFL for the 2024 season.

Although not recognized with all-league honors, other former Packers who featured during the Inaugural UFL season were quarterback Danny Etling, quarterback Manny Wilkins, tight end Sal Cannela, receiver Darrius Shepherd, receiver Amari Rodgers, tight end Alize Mack, kicker JJ Molson and kicker Ramiz Ahmed.

All-UFL kicker Jake Moody was reportedly requested for a visit by the Packers.

The UFL Championship will feature the Stallions (Sternberger and Johnson) against the San Antonio Brahmas. The game is set for Sunday, June 16 and will be broadcast on FOX starting at 4:00 p.m. CT.

Former Raiders punter Marquette King named to All-UFL team

Remember Marquette King? He’s back in football in the UFL and he’s still got it.

Remember Marquette King? He’s still kicking around. Literally. The former long time Raiders punter who once took the NFL by storm was back in football last year as a member of the UFL’s Arlington Renegades. And took that league by storm as well.

King has been named to the inaugural All-UFL team.

King was initially signed by the Raiders back in 2012 as a big-legged former wide receiver out of Fort Valley State. He was still pretty raw, but his potential was through the roof.

The Raiders liked him so much that they stashed him for a season while he polished his technique and Shane Lechler played his final season with the team. Then the following year, King took over the job.

He would spend five seasons with the team before his off-the-field antics — and some on-field antics as well — became too much and shortly after Jon Gruden took the job, he cut King.

Just four games with the Broncos the following season and King’s NFL career was done. He just seemed to care more about his social media profile than he did his actual job and that was apparently a big enough problem for NFL teams to stay away.

Back in 2019, he was drafted by the XFL’s St Louis Battlehawks, but would play just five games before the league would fold and the pandemic picked up. Three years later, the UFL came calling and King was back on the field. Now at the age of 35, five years removed from his last NFL game, he’s still got it. It makes you wonder what might have been if he had ‘gotten it’ off the field.