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via: eurweb.com

It’s not the NFL, but it is a professional football team that Brian Banks is becoming a member of.

Any way you look at it, it’s a win because the one-time high school football star has overcome incredible odds. Banks was recently exonerated in a California rape case in which he was falsely accused

The 26-year-old, who plays linebacker, is signing with the Las Vegas Locomotives of the United Football League.

The team confirmed the news in a statement Wednesday.