This season the team added some key young players including Lyle Thompson, Josh Byrne, Isaiah Davis-Allen, Jake Froccaro, and Ben Williams.
[1] The Bayhawks, in a three-year playoff drought, entered the season trying to improve upon their 8–6 record in 2016.
Despite being one of the seven teams tied atop the 2016 standings with an 8–6 record, the Bayhawks did not make the postseason due to tiebreaker procedures.
The defending champion Denver Outlaws beat the visiting Bayhawks 12–11 in overtime in the next-to-last game of the season.
However, they managed to finish 7–7 by bouncing back in the final game to defeat the Outlaws at home 23–19.