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Scott Steiner initially didn’t want his sons Brock and Brandon to become professional wrestlers, but it now seems like a realistic possibility.

Brock and Brandon Rechsteiner are both college athletes, with Brock playing football for Jacksonville State and Brandon playing basketball for Virginia Tech. Brock has already signed a WWE NIL deal, while Brandon considers pro wrestling to be a “pretty cool backup plan” depending on how things work out with his basketball career.

While appearing on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Scott Steiner said WWE started to show interest in his son Brock after he had a couple of standout performances in football games that aired on ESPN. Brock has been talking to his cousin Bron Breakker — the current WWE Intercontinental Champion — and is interested in becoming a wrestler. Though Scott never really wanted his sons to get into the business, he feels now is a good time with WWE thriving and AEW providing competition.

“I’m not sure,” Scott responded when asked if both Brock and Brandon will follow in his wrestling footsteps. “They both loved it when they were kids and when I wrestled. All sudden when I stopped they really didn’t pay attention to it too much. So I don’t know. Well, the thing that came about with Brock, because Brock, Brandon, and Bronson [Bron Breakker], and there’s a couple other guys get in sometimes, sometimes Brandon’s basketball friends or Bronson’s other guys at wrestling, they’ll play video games. So with Brock talking to Bronson all the time, and of course he’s on a trajectory that’s unbelievable. And he’s having fun. So he talks to Brock, then one thing led to another and he got the bug. He went out. He wanted to do it. There’s not a better time to be in wrestling, because there’s two [promotions]. WWE is doing phenomenal. Then you got AEW, so it’s always good to have competition. So I never really wanted them to go into wrestling, but I let them do what they want to do.”

Brandon Rechsteiner told the Miami Herald last month that, if he does become a wrestler, he likes the idea of forming a Bloodline-like faction with himself, his brother Brock, and their cousin Breakker.

The Steiners (Scott and Rick) were inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2022.

The pathway is open for Scott Steiner’s son Brock to join WWE once he’s done with football.

A wide receiver for Jacksonville State, Brock Rechsteiner will be a redshirt senior next season. He’s expressed interest in becoming a pro wrestler once his football career ends — and Scott Steiner revealed last month that Brock had been offered a WWE NIL deal by Paul “Triple H” Levesque.

While the news was all but confirmed when Scott tweeted out a picture of Brock wearing a WWE NIL shirt, Scott’s other son Brandon Rechsteiner — a basketball player for Virginia Tech — confirmed to the Miami Herald that his brother has signed the WWE NIL offer.

“My brother, he’ll be a superstar in the WWE, for sure. Growing up, I was the big WWE fan. I mean, I had every action figure. I was the biggest WWE fan. You couldn’t tell me I wasn’t going to be John Cena when I was younger. And then I kind of — I was just that kid that was trying to go against everything,” Brandon said. “So my dad was a Michigan fan, I wanted Ohio State to win. My dad was a wrestler, I was like, ‘I don’t want to wrestle. I want to play basketball.’ Like, I was that kid. But when I was young-young, I loved it. And then when I was in middle school, I was like, ‘I’m not going to wrestle.’

“But now — my dream for me and my brother would both be to do the best we can in what we do — which him for football, me for basketball. And then, for my brother, I know he really wants to [be in] WWE. He has signed an NIL deal with WWE. So my dream for him would be to do really good in football, try to take it to the NFL, whatever that means, and then — he will be a WWE Superstar because he’s so talented and he has the charisma that my dad has.”

For himself, Brandon sees WWE as a “pretty cool backup plan.” He loves basketball and wants to try and make it professionally, whether that means the NBA, G League, or overseas. If he does end up in WWE, Brandon thinks it would be cool to form a tag team with his brother or a faction with them and their cousin Bron Breakker.

“We [could] do like a little Bloodline or something like that — just take it over,” Brandon said.

WWE launched its NIL (Next in Line) program in 2021, creating a pipeline between college athletics and NXT. Athletes who sign NIL deals receive support from WWE while in college and may be offered a full WWE developmental contract upon completion of the program.