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The series grew out of a 2022 ESPN comedy segment in which Eli Manning disguised himself as a walk-on quarterback named Chad Powers to try out for Penn State's team without being recognized. That viral bit became the seed for the entire show, and Manning is credited among its producers.

Glen Powell spends much of the series buried under extensive prosthetic makeup as the goofy Chad, deliberately obscuring the movie-star looks that powered his rise in films like Top Gun: Maverick and Anyone but You, a comedic gamble at the height of his fame.

Powell co-created the show with Michael Waldron, best known for Marvel's Loki, an unexpected pairing of a leading man and a blockbuster franchise writer applied to an underdog sports comedy. Hulu renewed the series for a second season soon after its debut.

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Chad Powers is a Hulu sports comedy series co-created by and starring Glen Powell, expanding a viral comedy bit into a full six-episode showcase for one of Hollywood's fastest-rising stars. Developed by Powell with Michael Waldron, the writer behind Loki and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the series premiered in September 2025 and leans fully into big-hearted, broad sports-movie comedy.

Powell plays Russ Holliday, a spectacularly arrogant college quarterback whose career self-destructs in a moment of infamy that makes him a national punchline. Years later, desperate for redemption and unrecognizable under heavy prosthetics, he reinvents himself as Chad Powers, an earnest, goofy walk-on who tries out for a struggling college football team without anyone knowing who he really is. As Chad becomes the heart of the team, Russ must reckon with the ego that ruined him. Steve Zahn and Perry Mattfeld co-star.

The show grew out of a character Powell originally created with Eli Manning for an ESPN Eli's Places segment, in which Manning donned a disguise to secretly try out for a college team. Audiences responded warmly to the series' underdog charm and Powell's game, prosthetic-aided performance, and Hulu renewed it for a second season. Chad Powers is streaming on Hulu.

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