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NFL team announces signing of Scott Steiner’s son Brock

Posted on by Joseph Currier

Brock Rechsteiner won’t be crossing over into pro wrestling just yet.

The New Orleans Saints announced today that, after a successful stint in rookie minicamp, Rechsteiner has been signed to the team’s 90-man roster. The son of wrestling legend Scott Steiner, Rechsteiner played wide receiver at Jacksonville State and is now attempting to make it into the NFL at that same position.

Rechsteiner will now progress into the offseason with the Saints with the hope of making it to training camp and ultimately earning a spot on the team.

During rookie minicamp, Rechsteiner said he planned to go as far as he could in football before eventually entering the family business with WWE. Rechsteiner was already under an NIL deal with WWE while in college.

“I want to pursue football as long as I can, play as long as I can,” Rechsteiner said. “But once I’m done, I’ll get into wrestling too.”

Rechsteiner said seeing his father get inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame helped inspire him to pursue a wrestling career down the line. Bron Breakker — once a football player himself — has been advising his cousin Rechsteiner to get into WWE once football is over for him.

During rookie minicamp, Rechsteiner earned praise from Saints wide receiver coach Keith Williams, who calls him “Stone Cold.”

“Yeah, ‘Stone Cold,'”Williams said. “He’s kind of nasty. I just told him, ‘Hey, if you get mad at me, just don’t put me in a small package. I know you’ve got a few (wrestling) moves up your sleeve.’ But yeah, ‘Stone Cold’ has been great.

Rechsteiner went undrafted in the 2026 NFL Draft and spent time with the Tennessee Titans before joining the Saints. He has a brother named Brandon who is a college basketball player and also sees wrestling as a potential backup plan for himself.

Another Steiner planning WWE career down the line

Posted on by Joseph Currier

Another member of the Steiner family is planning to enter the wrestling business down the line.

After going undrafted in the 2026 NFL Draft, Brock Rechsteiner — the son of Scott Steiner — is currently attempting to make it into the league with the New Orleans Saints. The wide receiver is part of the Saints’ rookie minicamp and is committed to going as far in football as he can. But whenever football inevitably ends, Rechsteiner intends to become a pro wrestler.

“For sure,” Rechsteiner responded when WDSU News asked if watching his legendary father inspired him to pursue wrestling. “It really inspired me when he got inducted into the [WWE] Hall of Fame, back in Dallas, I think it was 2022. That inspired me to, once I’m done playing football — I want to pursue football as long as I can, play as long as I can — but once I’m done, I’ll get into wrestling too.”

Rechsteiner played for Jacksonville State in college and has already been under a WWE NIL deal. His road to WWE could closely mirror his cousin Bron Breakker, who played fullback in college and spent time in training camp with the Baltimore Ravens before joining NXT.

“I work out with him all the time back home,” Rechsteiner said about Breakker. “I go fishing with him a lot, because he moved back to Georgia. And he really convinced me to, once I’m done playing football, he said play football as long as I can and once I’m done playing football, get into the wrestling business.”

Scott Steiner’s sons are both athletes with Brock playing football and Brandon playing basketball. Brandon Rechsteiner sees wrestling as a potential backup plan for himself as well, but he knows Brock will be in WWE one day because of the charisma and talent his brother has.

When asked what his wrestling name would be, Brock said he hasn’t given much thought to it but hopes that he would just be “Brock Steiner.”

Breakker — Rick Steiner’s son — was given a new last name in WWE instead of directly continuing the Steiner lineage. A grudge match is taking place at WWE Backlash tonight with Breakker facing off against Seth Rollins.

Sons of Scott Steiner, Mark Henry & Titus O’Neil part of new WWE NIL class

Posted on by Josh Nason

The fifth-ever WWE NIL class has three names with familiar bloodline ties among them.

Announced by WWE on Saturday following USA Today’s initial report, Brock Rechsteiner (son of Scott Steiner), Jacob Henry (son of Mark Henry), and TJ Bullard (son of Titus O’Neil) were part of the 12-member class listed below.

Rechsteiner, formerly a wide receiver for the Jacksonville State football team, was reportedly offered his deal in January with his brother Brandon confirming it in February during an interview.

Henry is currently a football player and amateur wrestler at Oklahoma University while Bullard plays football for the University of Central Florida.

About the WWE NIL Program

The NIL (Next In Line) program was launched in December 2021 for college athletes. NIL deals allow athletes to profit off of their name, image, and likeness while still in college — a bi-product of new NCAA policies that took effect in July 2021 following the historic Ed O’Bannon lawsuit.

About the 5th WWE NIL Class

The following are the announced athletes, their most recent college, and sport played:

  • Brock Rechsteiner (Jacksonville State, football)
  • Jacob Henry (Oklahoma, football and wrestling)
  • Meghan Walker (Nebraska, track and field)
  • TJ Bullard (Central Florida, football)
  • Madison Kaiser (Minnesota, hockey)
  • Garrett Beck (Grand Canyon, lacrosse)
  • Kerrigan Huynh (University of Central Oklahoma, track and field)
  • Fatima Katembo (LSU Shreveport, basketball)
  • Bianca Pizano (Michigan State, field hockey)
  • Gina Adams (Lynn University, basketball)
  • Hidetora Hanada (Colorado State, football)
  • Zuriel Jimenez (Columbia University, track and field)

Scott Steiner comments on sons potentially joining WWE

Posted on by Joseph Currier

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.

Scott Steiner’s son Brock signs WWE NIL deal

Posted on by Joseph Currier

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.