Lions coach Dan Campbell has enjoyed watching the UFL, and believes the league could serve as a developmental-type league for the NFL. When asked specifically about it at Lions training camp on Friday, Campbell opened up about the advantages of taking players in from the UFL.

Not many people watch the UFL in the spring, but Lions coach Dan Campbell says it's a place to see some talented professional football players — and he'd like to see it become an official NFL farm system.

Life comes at you pretty fast. I'll let you behind the curtain a little bit. It wasn't long ago that I had this whole plan where I was going to interview a bunch of people in the NFL about the UFL potentially turning into a farm system like the NBA,