{"id":703171,"date":"2026-01-25T05:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T05:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/703171\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T05:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T05:03:13","slug":"former-semo-qb-signs-with-arena-football-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/703171\/","title":{"rendered":"Former SEMO QB signs with arena football team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) &#8211; Paxton DeLaurent has made it clear that he\u2019s willing to go play anywhere to continue his pro football dream. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The former SEMO Redhawk took a major step Saturday, signing with the Orlando Pirates. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Pirates compete in the Indoor Football League, the nation\u2019s largest arena football league. Formerly the Massachusetts Pirates, the team relocated to Orlando in November, with their debut season in Florida set for this March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">DeLaurent is one of two quarterbacks on the Pirates\u2019 roster, the other being Taulia Tagovailoa, former Maryland quarterback, and brother of current Miami Dolphins QB, Tua Tagovailoa. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">DeLaurent has been in Florida for the past several weeks, training with quarterback trainer Ken Mastrole in preparation for the UFL Draft. DeLaurent spoke on his preparation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kfvs12.com\/2026\/01\/12\/former-semo-quarterback-hoping-continue-pro-career\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kfvs12.com\/2026\/01\/12\/former-semo-quarterback-hoping-continue-pro-career\/\">earlier this month<\/a>, noting that if the UFL didn\u2019t have a spot, he\u2019d pursue a football opportunity, whether in the U.S., Canada, or even Europe. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Now set to play arena ball, DeLaurent\u2019s set to stay in the Sunshine State, ahead of the Pirates\u2019 regular season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Orlando opens the season on March 22, on the road against the New Mexico Chupacabras. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Pirates\u2019 home opener is set for April 5, against the Quad City Steamwheelers. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.kfvs12.com\/2026\/01\/12\/former-semo-quarterback-hoping-continue-pro-career\/<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KFVS. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) &#8211; Paxton DeLaurent has made it clear that he\u2019s willing to go play anywhere&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[59784,102340,7,23535,5092,102339,1259,3083,102341,4678],"class_list":["post-703171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-arena","tag-delaurent","tag-football","tag-indoor","tag-league","tag-paxton","tag-pro","tag-professional","tag-redhawk","tag-semo"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}