Former ISU running back Alexander Robinson has signed with the Cedar Rapids Titans, an expansion team of the Indoor Football League, for the 2012 season.

Robinson, the fourth all-time leading rusher in ISU history with 3,309 yards, said he was contacted by the general manager of the Titans after being cut from the Minnesota Vikings on Sept. 3.

“It’s just really beginning,” Robinson said of the transition from the NFL to the IFL. “I’ve still got to continue working out. For me, it’s pretty much the same as the [NFL] lockout, it’s just about waiting to hear something and waiting to move from there.”

The IFL, founded in 2008, consists of 13 teams and will be expanding to 16 for the 2012 season with one of those teams being the Cedar Rapids Titans.

“I had never heard of the IFL before,” Robinson said. “So I did a little bit of research and there’s been some good guys that came out of there.”

Buffalo Bills running back Fred Jackson emerged from previous renditions of the IFL – the National Indoor Football League and the United Indoor Football League – before eventually making his way to the NFL after emerging from Coe College in Cedar Rapids.

Robinson said his goal was to ultimately return to the NFL as well.

“When I talked with the general manager of the Cedar Rapids Titans, he said that was his goal too,” Robinson said. “He said he wants to try to help me get back into the NFL.”