The USFL MVP for the 2023 season as the Birmingham Stallions quarterback, Alex McGough has joined the Green Bay Packers as a wide receiver.

The NFL team announced on Wednesday that McGough had joined the team’s practice squad.

McGough spent the 2023 NFL season on Green Bay’s practice squad as a quarterback. In 2024, the Packers placed McGough on injured reserve on July 20 and waived him on July 30. That came after coach Matt LaFleur’s announcement on May 5 that Green Bay was converting McGough into a wide receiver.

When the 2023 USFL season began, McGough was not the Stallions’ starting quarterback. McGough moved into the lineup when Birmingham quarterback J’Mar Smith dislocated a finger in the second quarter of the Stallions’ season-opening game on April 15.

Birmingham won that game 27-10 over the New Jersey Generals and went on to post the USFL’s best regular-season mark in 2023 at 8-2 with McGough at quarterback. McGough led the USFL in touchdown passes, TD responsibility and passing-efficiency rating at 108.3 while finishing sixth in rushing yards.

On July 1, 2023, McGough threw four touchdown passes as the Stallions beat the Pittsburgh Maulers 28-12 to win the USFL Championship Game for the second consecutive season. McGough completed 16-of-23 passes for 243 yards with four touchdowns and no interceptions and ran for 64 yards on nine carries.

On July 3, 2022, the Stallions defeated the Philadelphia Stars 33-30 to cap the USFL’s inaugural season. With Smith riding an exercise bike on the sideline because of a leg problem, McGough capped an eight-play, 64-yard drive with an 8-yard touchdown pass to Vic Bolden Jr. with 3:09 to play to put the Stallions in front. On the Stars’ first snap after falling behind 26-23, Stallions linebacker Scooby Wright intercepted a pass and ran 46 yards for a touchdown with 2:53 to play.

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.