But entering the 2020 season, the Rams added Wolford to the roster as the backup to starting quarterback Jared Goff, who was the first overall selection of the 2016 NFL Draft and earns $33.5 million per year. In August 2019, Los Angeles signed Wolford to the team's practice squad (where players are not on the team's official roster but earn more than $8,000 a week). Wolford played quarterback for the Arizona Hotshots, one of the league's eight teams, and his play garnered the attention of the Rams' front office (Wolford was twice named the AAF's Player of the Week). Wolford returned to North Carolina to work at Teall Capital for roughly six months before he got invited to join the Alliance of American Football (AAF), a brief-lived rival to the NFL that played just one season before filing for bankruptcy in April 2019.
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Wolford played in one preseason game that summer before the Jets cut him to make room for another free agent quarterback on the team's roster. But just three days before he would have started working as a private equity analyst, Wolford received a call from the New York Jets, who ended up signing him as an undrafted free agent during the team's training camp. Wolford lined up a job with North Carolina private equity firm Teall Capital that he was set to start in August 2018. So with a summer internship with a private equity firm in 2017 under his belt, Wolford prepared to embark on a career in finance after college. After wrapping up a relatively successful college career in 2018 (Wolford was Wake Forest's team captain and earned second-team All-ACC honors), Wolford received some interest from NFL scouts but was still not among the 13 quarterbacks selected in that year's NFL draft.
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