Glen Powell Stars in Hulu's Chad Powers, a Disgraced QB's Comeback

Glen Powell will lead a new half hour comedy on Hulu this fall as a disgraced college quarterback who adopts a fake identity to get back on the field. Chad Powers, which debuts September 30, 2025, stars Powell as Russ Holliday, a once-promising quarterback whose career was wrecked by an infamous, vanity-driven mistake eight years earlier. With the trailer premiering during ESPN's College GameDay, Hulu positioned the series as a sports comedy about reinvention and deception set on a struggling Southern college team.

According to the series logline and the trailer, Holliday tries to resurrect his career by disguising himself as Chad Powers, a talented but eccentric walk-on for the South Georgia Catfish. The plot hinges on a widely publicized play in which Holliday showboats in the end zone, drops the ball before scoring and allows the opponent to recover and win. The character adopts heavy makeup and prosthetics to pass as an everyman player, a conceit the trailer leans into for comic effect.

Chad Powers was co-created and co-written by Powell and Michael Waldron. Powell also serves as an executive producer under his Barnstorm Productions banner. The series traces its origin to a...