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SALT LAKE CITY — Salt Lake’s newest professional football team, the Salt Lake Stallions, keeps adding players.
And four more of them are familiar to local college football fans.
Former Utah defensive tackles Sealver Siliga and Tenny Palepoi, and ex-BYU standouts Micah Hannemann and Jordan Leslie have been signed to the first-year Alliance of American Football team’s inaugural roster, general manager Randy Muller announced Saturday morning.
Siliga, who prepped at Copper Hills, has played for seven NFL teams over the past seven years, accumulating 102 career tackles, 6.5 sacks and a forced fumble in 44 games, including 13 starts.
He won a Super Bowl title with the New England Patriots in 2015 before being signed most recently by the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Palepoi played at Skyline and Snow College before moving on to Utah, and he spent four seasons with the then-San Diego Chargers. He most recently signed a training camp contract with the Buffalo Bills, but was released before the season.
Hannemann, who prepped at Lone Peak, is from a long line of BYU products and finished his Cougar career with 123 tackles, 14 pass breakups and four interceptions. He played part of two seasons in the NFL with the Cleveland Browns and Chargers.
Leslie has played with six NFL teams since turning pro in 2015, a year after he transferred to BYU from Houston as one of the Cougars’ only graduate transfers in program history. A fan favorite, he caught 55 passes for 779 yards and six touchdowns in his lone season in Provo.
His next stop will include catching passes from Stallions quarterbacks Josh Woodrum and BJ Daniels.
The Stallions will open their inaugural season Feb. 10 at 2 p.m. MST at the Arizona Hotshots. Salt Lake's first home game is Feb. 23 at Rice-Eccles Stadium.