Pat McAfee Signs with Ari Emanuel for Acting Roles

Pat McAfee, the retired NFL punter turned prominent sports broadcaster, is making a significant push into Hollywood, with industry executive Ari Emanuel leading efforts to position him as a crossover entertainment star comparable to Sylvester Stallone. Reports indicate McAfee has signed with Emanuel, the executive chairman of TKO Group Holdings and WME, who has already secured acting roles for him in upcoming television and film projects.

McAfee's Hollywood debut includes a four-episode arc in the fourth season of Paramount's Tulsa King, where he will appear alongside Stallone, who stars as the titular crime boss Dwight Manfredi. The series, which follows a New York mobster exiled to Oklahoma, has incorporated other wrestling figures, such as actor Mike Walden as a series regular enforcer character. Additionally, McAfee has been cast in the 2026 Netflix film The Mosquito Bowl, directed by Peter Berg and based on Buzz Bissinger's book about a real-life World War II football game among U.S. Marines on Guadalcanal. In the sports drama, McAfee will portray a Marine drill instructor, joining a cast that includes Nicholas Galitzine and Bill Skarsgård.