“Bussin’ With the Boys” podcast cohost Will Compton has a wild take ahead of the NFL season — and we’re sorry to the Kansas City Chiefs.
“Biggest NFL predictions of the season, man,” Compton, 35, told Us Weekly exclusively while promoting VICE TV’s docuseries The Grudge. “I think the Chiefs don’t make the playoffs.”
Quarterback Patrick Mahomes has taken the Kansas City Chiefs to the Super Bowl for the past three years, and they even won the big game in 2023 and 2024. (The Chiefs lost to the Philadelphia Eagles this past February.)
Compton, for his part, has some history with the Chiefs alongside podcast cohost Taylor Lewan. The duo interviewed tight end Travis Kelce in June 2024 — and yes, his relationship with Taylor Swift was discussed.
“There’s a good song and dance that happens in the conversation,” Compton explained to Us when asked about interviewing athletes and having to bring up their personal lives. “Guys will sit with us and tell us stories that they might not necessarily tell in the locker room, in front of a camera or to a reporter or to any other big media company, but they’ll sit down with us.”
Both Compton and Lewan are retired NFL players themselves and have used “Bussin’ With the Boys” to “bring the locker room to life” with their podcast.
“For me, you end up finding a lane within the humor or within something else to bring up a harder question, so that we’re not just going in reading off of a card,” Compton continued. “You might say something humorous that happened throughout the season involving Taylor and be like, ‘Do you ever get sick of the storytelling you have to do with yourself and Taylor Swift?’ From there, I might bring out a different story with Travis to where he’s talking about Taylor Swift, and I’m just using that as an example — I don’t even know if that happened — but that’s the mindset.”
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This week, retired Carolina Panthers player Luke Kuechly appeared on “Bussin’ With the Boys.” According to Compton, stories were shared that “people haven’t necessarily heard” before.
Aside from the podcast — which just signed a major deal with FanDuel following five years at Barstool Sports — Compton is celebrating his new gig with VICE TV. The podcaster is “ecstatic” to be narrating the network’s The Grudge docuseries, which is all about some of the biggest rivalries in sports history.
“I’ve always had a weird obsession, any time a movie trailer comes on, trying to mimic the voice and have fun with my voice,” he told Us. “Elevate it, bring it up, bring it down, play with it. The fact that they wanted me to be on their docuseries was all-time.”
New episodes of The Grudge premiere on VICE TV Wednesdays at 10 p.m. ET.
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