Most of the scenes at the college were filmed at Wagner College in Staten Island, NY.
High school football senior, Cedric came to New York York for a recruitment trip. Cedric was from a small town in Georgia called Loganville. Kelli Giddish is actually from there.
As of 2024, there has been only one player who has publicly come out as gay or bisexual, while being an active player in the National Football League (NFL): Carl Nassib, who revealed himself as gay on June 21, 2021, while with the Las Vegas Raiders. He became the first openly gay player to play in an NFL game on September 13, 2021. Six former NFL players have come out publicly, after they retired.