Amazon has debuted the full official trailer for the new 3-part documentary series, Cocaine Quarterback, streaming later this month, coinciding with the start of football season. The doc is from Mark Wahlberg’s company Unrealistic Ideas. The doc series does feature dramatizations and reenactments, but it this really happened.

Cocaine Quarterback: Signal-Caller for the Cartel follows the FBI’s capture of Owen Hanson, a former USC football player who became a major drug kingpin in the early 2000s. It details Hanson’s rise from modest beginnings to walking onto the USC football team, to illegal sports bookmaking, and eventually smuggling cocaine. After years in prison, Hanson is now out on parole. The doc includes him telling all about what happened, as well as inside details and archival footage. Most of this was also detailed in Hanson’s book titled “The California Kid.”

Cocaine Quarterback: Signal-Caller for the Cartel tells the cautionary tale of convicted drug trafficker Owen Hanson (nicknamed “O-Dog”), detailing Hanson’s rise from modest beginnings, to unexpectedly walking on to powerhouse USC football team, to illegal sports bookmaking, and eventually smuggling cocaine. After graduation, with superstar friends making millions in the NFL, the lure of fast money soon becomes too much to resist. Owen parlays his small-time criminality into a risky alliance with a powerful Mexican drug lord, intertwining his quest for wealth with the deadly world of organized crime. When his harebrained money laundering scheme loses millions of the cartel’s cash, Owen is caught in a web of dangerous debt, absurd criminal mishap, and a thrilling FBI investigation. Fueled by the insights of people who lived all sides of the case, including Hanson himself, along with a stylish dramatization, the series details Owen’s unbelievable journey from celebrated athlete to cocaine kingpin at the pinnacle of the drug world.

Cocaine Quarterback: Signal-Caller for the Cartel is produced by Mark Wahlberg’s Unrealistic Ideas. The 3-part doc series is directed by Jody McVeigh-Schultz, also the director on Echo Lake, “The Murders at Starved Rock”, “Spy High” doc series. The documentary is executive produced by Mark Wahlberg, Stephen Levinson, Archie Gips, David Wendell, and Jody McVeigh-Schultz. Amazon debuts the Cocaine Quarterback doc series streaming on Prime Video starting September 25th, 2025.

Persons: Mark Wahlberg, Owen Hanson, Jody McVeigh-Schultz, Stephen Levinson, Archie Gips, David Wendell

Company Names: Amazon, Unrealistic Ideas, Prime Video, FBI, USC, NFL

Titles: Cocaine Quarterback, Cocaine Quarterback: Signal-Caller for the Cartel, Echo Lake, The Murders at Starved Rock, Spy High, The California Kid

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