{"id":506294,"date":"2026-03-06T01:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T01:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/506294\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T01:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T01:32:08","slug":"glen-powell-led-chad-powers-casts-4-for-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/506294\/","title":{"rendered":"Glen Powell-Led ‘Chad Powers’ Casts 4 For Season 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Glen Powell<\/a>-led Chad Powers<\/a> is expanding its cast, adding Colin Woodell<\/a> (Pulse), Gillian Jacobs<\/a> (Community), writer-comedian Carey O\u2019Donnell and Nate Varrone (The Bear) as guest stars for Season 2.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe series is based on the ESPN and Omaha Productions segment \u201cEli\u2019s Places,\u201d where Eli Manning disguised himself in prosthetics to participate in a walk-on tryout at Penn State.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Season 1, eight years after an unforgivable mistake nukes his promising college football career, hotshot quarterback Russ Holliday (Powell) tries to resurrect his dreams by disguising himself as Chad Powers \u2014 a talented oddball who walks on to the struggling South Georgia Catfish.<\/p>\n

\n\tWoodell plays Jay, a charming, handsome and wealthy Catfish alum. Tricia (Wynn Everett) brings him to a Catfish game to try and recruit him as a booster.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tJacobs portrays Jerri Dougan, sister to Gerry (Colton Ryan). She is a Catfish fanatic who believes Powers taking her brother\u2019s QB job is a conspiracy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tO\u2019Donnell is Mr. Brent, the head of USG cheerleading.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tVarrone plays Dustin, a guy who lives at the purported West Virginia residence of \u201cChad Powers\u201d and is unwittingly dragged into the lie.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to Powell, Season 1 cast included Perry Mattfeld as Ricky, Quentin Plair as Coach Byrd, Wynn Everett as Tricia Yeager, Frankie A. Rodriguez as Danny and Steve Zahn as Coach Jake Hudson.<\/p>\n

\n\tCo-created by Powell and Michael Waldron, Season 1 was executive produced by Powell, Waldron, Eli Manning, Peyton Manning, Jamie Horowitz, Ben Brown, Burke Magnus, Brian Lockhart, Kati Fernandez, Adam Fasullo, Luvh Rakhe and Tony Yacenda. The series is produced by 20th Television.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWoodell most recently played Rachel Sennott\u2019s love interest in HBO\u2019s I Love L.A. He\u2019s known for his leading role in Netflix\u2019s medical drama Pulse and also was lead of The Continental for Peacock. He\u2019s repped by Entertainment 360 and Gersh.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tJacobs, known for her role as Britta on all six seasons of Community, as well as her work on Love, Invincible and The Bear, is repped by WME, Authentic Talent & Literary Management and Lichter Grossman.<\/p>\n

\n\tWriter-comedian O\u2019Donnell wrote on the Emmy-nominated sixth season of Billy on the Street, Heathers, Summer Camp Island, and the WGA-nominated Netflix comedy special Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration. He has two features in development with Killer Films, Linden Entertainment\/ Party Over Here and Belletrist. O\u2019Donnell is repped by UTA, Linden Entertainment and Ginsburg Daniels Kallis.<\/p>\n

\n\tVarrone is an alum of The Second City Mainstage in Chicago. He was selected to perform in Comedy Central\u2019s \u201cUp Next\u201d Showcase in 2019 at Clusterfest and has written for the Emmy-nominated Stephen Colbert Presents Tooning Out the News. He\u2019s also featured in Season 2 of The Bear on FX\/Hulu. Varrone is repped by Heroes and Villains Entertainment and CAA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Glen Powell-led Chad Powers is expanding its cast, adding Colin Woodell (Pulse), Gillian Jacobs (Community), writer-comedian Carey…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[76704,230260,88,230261,35569,92],"class_list":["post-506294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-chad-powers","tag-colin-woodell","tag-entertainment","tag-gillian-jacobs","tag-glen-powell","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}