{"id":435545,"date":"2024-11-15T17:31:03","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T22:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/?post_type=article&#038;p=435545"},"modified":"2024-11-15T17:31:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T22:31:03","slug":"aj-mccarron-released-by-ufl-team-per-report","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/alabama-football\/aj-mccarron-released-by-ufl-team-per-report\/","title":{"rendered":"AJ McCarron released by UFL team, per report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AJ McCarron is being released by the St. Louis Battlehawks ahead of the 2025 UFL season, according to a report.<\/p>\n<p>That news was first shared by Ben Frederickson of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Friday afternoon. This would make McCarron a free agent going into the 2025 campaign.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The St. Louis Battlehawks are releasing quarterback A.J. McCarron, per a source. What should be the UFL&#39;s most appealing job just opened. Column coming later to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stltoday?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@stltoday<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ben Frederickson (@Ben_Fred) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ben_Fred\/status\/1857510888191721683?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>McCarron has been a big part of the Battlehawks franchise over the past 2 seasons. In 2024, he completed over 64% of his passes for 1,582 yards, 15 touchdowns and 4 interceptions across 9 games for St. Louis.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, McCarron threw for 2,150 yards and 24 touchdowns for the Battlehawks. McCarron is the franchise&#8217;s all-time leader in passing yards and passing touchdowns. The Battlehawks made the playoffs with McCarron leading the way in 2024, but lost to San Antonio in the conference finals.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear at this time whether McCarron will continue to pursue his professional career. The former Alabama quarterback has not played in the NFL since 2023 when he appeared in 2 games for the Cincinnati Bengals. Prior to that experience, McCarron hadn&#8217;t thrown a pass in the NFL since the 2020 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 UFL season begins the weekend of March 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AJ McCarron will not be returning to the St. Louis Battlehawks, per a report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":356456,"featured_media":435546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","tags":[],"class_list":["post-435545","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_types-news","teams-alabama-football"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/435545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/356456"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}