Spring football history
XFL 2023 Stats
Standings plus every published player and team stat for each UFL season and the XFL and USFL seasons before it, by category, with all-time career totals.
XFL 2023 Year in Review
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The XFL returned in 2023 with eight teams and a 10-week regular season. The DC Defenders went 9–1 for the league’s best record and won the North; Houston won the South at 7–3. Seattle (7–3) and Arlington (4–6) took the other playoff spots, with St. Louis missing out at 7–3. Seattle’s Ben DiNucci led the league with 2,671 passing yards, DC’s Abram Smith led in rushing (791 yards), Seattle’s Jahcour Pearson led in receiving (670 yards) and Houston’s Trent Harris led with 9.5 sacks. MVP AJ McCarron threw a league-high 24 touchdown passes for St. Louis. Arlington, the only playoff team with a losing record, beat DC 35–26 in the championship at the Alamodome, where game MVP Luis Perez threw for 288 yards and three touchdowns.
XFL awards
- Most Valuable PlayerAJ McCarron
STL · QB · source - Offensive Player of the YearJordan Ta’amu
DC · QB · source - Defensive Player of the YearPita Taumoepenu
VGS · LB · source - Special Teams Player of the YearDarrius ShepherdSTL · WR/KR · source
- Coach of the YearReggie BarlowDC · HC · source
Sources: xfl.com award announcements (archived); CBS Sports: 2023 XFL awards; Touchdown Alabama: McCarron named XFL MVP (cited by Wikipedia); XFL championship game review; Wikipedia: 2023 XFL season; season records and stat totals from the standings and stat tables on this page. Only awards announced by the XFL are listed. The xfl.com announcements are linked through the Internet Archive because the league site is no longer online.
Source: player stats from ESPN XFL box scores (all 40 regular-season games); standings from Wikipedia: 2023 XFL season; title game from Wikipedia: 2023 XFL Championship Game. Player totals are summed from ESPN’s box scores for the 40 regular-season games. ESPN does not list kickoffs, per-player points or games started, so those are not shown. GP counts games in which a player appeared in a box score. Defensive “TD” in ESPN’s feed mixes return types, so the scoring table is omitted rather than estimated. W/L and points computed from 40 regular-season game results; W/L and points cross-checked against Wikipedia for all 8 teams. Regular season only; team names are as they were that season. Averages and percentages are computed from the published totals. Not published by the sources for this season, so not shown: Kickoffs, Scoring, Penalties.