Did you know some of your favourite country artists used to play football in college?<\/p>\n
Here are five…<\/p>\n
1. Trace Adkins: He was an offensive lineman at Louisiana Tech. He had to quit after his freshman year because of a knee injury.<\/p>\n
2. Sam Hunt: He was a starting quarterback at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. And even tried out for the Kansas City Chiefs.<\/p>\n
3. Lee Brice: He earned a scholarship to play as a lineman at Clemson University. But injured his right arm and had a career-ending surgery.<\/p>\n
4. Riley Green: He was the starting quarterback at Jacksonville State University. He quit football to pursue music, but it looks like that paid off!<\/p>\n
5. Chase Rice: He was a linebacker for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He got injured and couldn’t pursue a professional career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did you know some of your favourite country artists used to play football in college?","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":21535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[514,3132,316,820,246,1164,1224],"class_list":["post-21534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-chase-rice","tag-college-football","tag-football","tag-lee-brice","tag-riley-green","tag-sam-hunt","tag-trace-adkins"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 14:01:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2022\/10\/country-artists-that-also-played-college-football\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}