“Who the f**k is that guy?” marvels NFL great Eli Manning upon his first look at sudden college football sensation Chad Powers.

Eli ought to know. He created Chad.

Chad Powers , an adorably silly sports comedy, was inspired by a segment of Manning’s Eli’s Places series in which he donned a ridiculous disguise with prosthetics and a wig to impersonate a walk-on player during open tryouts at Penn State. This stunt is now a deliriously improbable and mostly delightful six-episode farce, starring Hit Man chameleon Glen Powell (also a co-writer, co-creator, and executive producer) as Russ Holliday, a once-promising college QB seeking a comeback eight years after torching his career in a meltdown during a national championship game.

As the overripe Chad, whose very appearance demands a h

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