Terry Crews has many different roles. You know him as an actor from unforgettable projects such as No chance for me, White chicksAnd Brooklyn Nine-Nine. America’s Got Talent Fans have loved him since 2019 as the host of the show, where he shows off his pecs every week. But before that—before fame and Hollywood success—Crews was a football player. In fact, he played for the NFL on and off for five years.
His journey into the world of football is an interesting one. He had no intention of becoming a professional athlete. In fact, his original dreams couldn’t have been further from football. Read more details below.
When was Terry Crews in the NFL?
Terry Crews played football in the NFL between 1991 and 1996. That was between the ages of 23 and 28.
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Which NFL teams did Terry Crews play for?
How did Terry Crews become a professional football player?
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How did Terry Crews get into acting after football and the NFL?
Crews got his first film role in 1999 as T-Money in the syndicated American Gladiator-Style Series Battle Domethat address the challenges of American Gladiator with the scripted antics of professional wrestling. A crossover event led to his appearances in Season 6, Episodes 45-47 of WCW Monday Nitro in 2000 (which you can stream on Peacock).
He got his first film role during his Battle Dome term when he appeared as an assassin in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s clone film The 6th day (2000). He also had an uncredited role in the film Denzel Washington Training day (2001) and played Damon, a former prisoner, in the third part of Ice Cube’s Friday Trilogy, Friday after next (2002).
Crews then made a number of guest appearances on television before his breakthrough roles in White chicks (2004) as professional basketball player Latrell Spencer. He then played Cheeseburger Eddie in Adam Sandler’s prison football film No chance for me (2005) and President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho in the 2006 film Mike Judge Idiocracy. He played Terry Jeffords in the popular television series Brooklyn Nine-Nine, which you can also stream on Peacock.
