Former Bulls linebacker picked by the Vegas Vipers
 
TAMPA, FLA., JUNE 16, 2023– University of South Florida football standout Dwayne Boyles (Miami) was selected by the Vegas Vipers in the 2023 XFL Rookie Draft.
 
The linebacker posted a career-best 108 tackles in 2022 to lead USF, becoming just the 13^th Bulls' player to log 100 tackles in a season. He also led the Bulls with 10 tackles for loss, three forced fumbles and two recovered fumbles to go with an interception and a sack. Boyles led USF in tackles in seven games in the 2022 season and his 108 tackles rank ninth all-time in a season for the Bulls.
 
Boyles left USF with a career tackle total to 315, placing him seventh on the Bulls all-time chart and becoming just the eighth player in USF history to log 300 career tackles.
 
A 2022 American Athletic Conference Honorable Mention All-Conference selection and 2021 Pro Football Network Second-Team All-Conference pick, the five-year Bulls starter (playing an extra year due to COVID-19) Finished his career with a USF record 54 career games played and added 43 career start.
 
USF had two Bulls reach the first XFL Championship game last season, as Tampa natives Bruce Hector (2013-17) and KJ Sails (2019-20) squared off on opposite sides of the ball in the Alamo Dome in San Antonio, Texas. South Division title-winning Arlington Renegades (4-6) vs. the North Division title-winning DC Defenders (9-1)
 
ABOUT USF FOOTBALL
The USF football program first took the field in 1997 and completed its 26th season in 2022 while completing construction on a new $22 million Indoor Performance Facility. The Bulls have posted 15 winning seasons, earned 16 All-America selections, including 2021 consensus All-American kick returner Brian Battie, and had 32 first-team all-conference selections. USF has had 30 players selected in the NFL Draft and has made 10 bowl game appearances (going 6-4 in those games), posting a program-record six straight appearances from 2005-2010 and most recently making four straight bowl appearances from 2015-18. The Bulls posted back-to-back 10-win seasons in 2016 and 2017, logging a program-record 11-2 mark in 2016 while finishing both seasons ranked in the Top 25. USF spent a program-record 20 straight weeks ranked in the Top 25 during the 2016 and 2017 seasons and reached as high as No. 2 in the national rankings during the 2007 season.
 
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