DALLAS — Former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf posted a $45,000 bond yesterday in Washington for drug and burglary charges out of Texas after being arrested by customs agents as he returned to the United States from Canada.

James Farren, the district attorney in Randall County in West Texas, said Leaf was arrested yesterday by federal customs agents in Bellingham. Wash.

Bill Kelly, Leaf's attorney in Texas, said his client was returning to Texas to turn himself in.

The ex-Washington State University and San Diego Chargers quarterback is charged with burglary to a habitation, a second-degree felony. Leaf also was indicted on seven counts of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud and one count of delivery of a simulated controlled substance.

Leaf coached quarterbacks at West Texas A&M in Canyon, where the indictment was returned in May.

Leaf, who resigned from West Texas A&M after being investigated for drug crimes in November, was working in British Columbia, his attorney said. Kelly said Leaf "has been to rehab and successfully completed it."

Leaf, who coached for three seasons at West Texas A&M, spent four seasons in the NFL after being chosen with the No. 2 pick in the 1998 draft by the Chargers.

His NFL career included stints with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Dallas Cowboys.

VIKINGS

OWNER: FAVRE'S FUTURE UNDECIDED

MINNEAPOLIS — It's all up to Brett Favre now. Minnesota Vikings owner Zygi Wilf made that much clear yesterday.

Wilf told a group of season ticket holders that the possibility of Favre playing for the Vikings next season hinges on Favre's surgically repaired right arm.

"Right now, it's all up to Brett Favre in terms of where his future is at," Wilf told about 1,200 fans gathered at the State Theatre for a "State of the Vikings" event.

The comments echoed Favre's statement in an interview with HBO two days earlier. Favre said then that he is considering a return if his throwing arm will allow it and that the Vikings are the only team he has spoken to about a comeback.

Dr. James Andrews performed surgery on Favre on May 22 to address an injured biceps tendon. After throwing to high school students yesterday at Oak Grove High School in Hattiesburg, Miss., Favre told WDAM-TV that he wasn't ready yet.

"Dr. Andrews said more or less four weeks you should know if (surgery) was completely successful," Favre said, about 3 1/2 weeks after the surgery. "I threw a couple of balls today where I really felt it ... different places in my shoulder where it's sore."