Top 5 NFL Stars That Should Play In The XFL

#4. Johnny Manziel

Hamilton Tiger-Cats v Calgary Stampeders

The troubled 2012 Heisman Award-winning Texas A&M star is now playing in the Canadian Football League, not the NFL. He squandered his NFL opportunity after being drafted by the Cleveland Browns. Manziel succumbed to a life of partying and quickly saw himself out of the league he worked so hard to gain entry to.

Vince McMahon asserted that no player with a criminal record will play in the XFL and Manziel was arrested in 2016 on domestic violence charges. Recently; however, XFL CEO Oliver Luck told the HawkCast that the league may be looking at other ways around the criminal conviction issue,

"We’ll have to develop sort of more specific policies about what would disqualify a guy. We haven’t quite honestly gotten around to that yet."

Eventually, Manziel overcame the substance abuse issues that plagued him early on in his NFL career and returned to professional football. When he found the NFL to be unwelcoming, he joined the CFL's Hamilton Tiger-Cats; but, has since been traded to the Montreal Alouettes, where he has struggled.

The Texas A&M star is out of place up north, where football is played on a longer wider field with more defenders and different rules. A return to the states may be just what the doctor ordered for Manziel, who would undoubtedly be extremely marketable, especially for a Texas XFL team.

Manziel is a quality player with the talent to be great, if he has the right surrounding cast. McMahon has the funds to provide such a cast. He has already brought former NFL coaches Jon Fox and Jim Caldwell in as advisors and would likely do more for a player of Manziel's caliber. With the right system and the right coaching, Johnny Manziel might just find his career resurrected under the tutelage of Vince McMahon.