Dayton Wolfpack

On August 11, 2016, the Arena Developmental League (which then became the National Arena League) officially announced the Wolfpack as its fourth charter team, following the previously announced Columbus Lions, High Country Grizzlies and Lehigh Valley Steelhawks.^[1] The team was originally announced to be led by head coach Derrick Shepard and owners Jerome and Jesse Clark.^[2]

Over social media, the owners of the Wolfpack announced they would be playing at the Nutter Center and the NAL made the schedule listing the Nutter as their home venue. Due to the Jacksonville Sharks needing to fulfill their previous eight home contract with their arena from their time in the Arena Football League, the Wolfpack and Corpus Christi Rage each were only scheduled for five home games, with four home games of the Wolfpack's falling on a Monday. However, by February 2017, several signed players reported over social media that they had all been released from their contracts due to lack of a home venue. By February 20, the NAL had removed their home games from the schedule, leaving the Wolfpack as a traveling team. Also over social media, Marcus Ray announced he would be operating the Wolfpack traveling team out of the Atlanta area for the season.^[3]

Later in the season, Erasmus Harvey announced his new team, the Georgia Doom, would play the Georgia Firebirds as the Dayton Wolfpack for the April 29 game in Albany.^[4]

The Wolfpack were not listed as members of the league after the NAL 2017 summer meetings concluded.^[5]

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Schedule

Key:   Win   Tie   Loss   Bye

All start times were local time

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Week	Day	Date	Kickoff	Opponent	Results		Location
					Score	Record
1	Sunday	March 19	4:00pm	at Lehigh Valley Steelhawks	L 25–66	0–1	PPL Center
2	Monday	March 27	7:00pm	at Monterrey Steel	L 24–61	0–2	Arena Monterrey
3	Saturday	April 1	7:00pm	at High Country Grizzles	L 6–94	0–3	George M. Holmes Convocation Center
4	Monday	April 10	7:05pm	Monterrey Steel	Cancelled[a]
5	Sunday	April 16	7:05pm	Corpus Christi Rage	Cancelled[a]
6	BYE
7	Saturday	April 29	7:00pm	at Georgia Firebirds	L 32–35	0–4	Albany Civic Center
8	Saturday	May 6	7:00pm	at Lehigh Valley Steelhawks	L 6–68	0–5	PPL Center
9	Monday	May 15	7:05pm	High Country Grizzlies	Cancelled[a]
10	Saturday	May 20	7:00pm	at Columbus Lions	L 0–77	0–6	Columbus Civic Center
11	Monday	May 29	7:05pm	Lehigh Valley Steelhawks	Cancelled[a]
12	Saturday	June 3	7:00pm	at Jacksonville Sharks	L 32–77	0–7	Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena
13	BYE
14	Monday	June 19	7:05pm	Lehigh Valley Steelhawks	Cancelled[a]

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   Originally scheduled home game for the Wolfpack, cancelled when the team became a traveling team.

Roster

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2017 Dayton Wolfpack roster
Quarterbacks  4 Efi Eyo Fullbacks 12 Aaron Appleby Wide receivers  9 Cory Alberty 15 DeQuavious Barbin  1 Lajuantae Hicks  2 Brian Robinson  3 DeMarcus Sweat		Offensive linemen 30 Kirk Holcombe 75 Terry Johnson 70 William Kohliem 44 Zachariah Taylor Defensive linemen 78 Dillon Berryhill 11 Darrick Cannon 10 Carl Green 48 Darius Murphy -- Stephen Williams		Linebackers  6 Vaughn Cornelia  8 Justin Spruill Defensive backs 15 Vincent Bridges  5 Louis Brown 14 Daryl Thomas  7 Terez Wilkins Special teams 25 Zach Holley		Reserve lists -- Malcolm Moulton DB (Susp.) 20 Rashawn Robinson FB (IR) Rookies in italics Roster updated June 3, 2017 23 Active, 2 Inactive

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